From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 23 19:03:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA26197 for stable-outgoing; Sun, 23 Nov 1997 19:03:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA26191 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 1997 19:03:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA18420; Sun, 23 Nov 1997 20:03:38 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id UAA21771; Sun, 23 Nov 1997 20:03:36 -0700 Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 20:03:36 -0700 Message-Id: <199711240303.UAA21771@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Richard Wackerbarth Cc: Eivind Eklund , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Version Resolution? In-Reply-To: References: <199711202218.PAA11561@mt.sri.com> <199711202300.JAA00612@word.smith.net.au> <199711202321.QAA11798@mt.sri.com> <199711232328.AAA17394@bitbox.follo.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >serious. (I don't like the solution, but I don't see it as a fatal > >flaw - we can, if necessary, nuke the file w/history with regular > >intervals). > > That is, in effect, what I do. The only problem is that Nate INSISTS > that we must AUTOMATICALLY recognize new branches. He is somehow > afraid that someone might mess up the RCS template if they were to > do it manually. No, the RCS file *will* be corrupted when a branch is built until the RCS 'template' builder is updated, which will totally hose CVS up when the underlying RCS file changes *totally* out from under it. I've explained how it happens both publically and privately, so you're just acting like a baby by bringing it up over and over again. Please act like an adult and not like a spoiled child. Nate