Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 23:08:57 -0700 From: Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com> To: eivind@yes.no Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stable branch Message-ID: <200010090608.XAA13132@windsor.research.att.com> References: <4.3.2.20001007214506.00bb7c10@207.227.119.2> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1001007232657.90573A-100000@fledge.watson.org> <20001008131908.B78013@warning.follo.net>
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>Warner's technique of adding the branch tag for only those files we actually >modify would negate the 30-byte cost, but I don't think it is worthwhile. >If we want to negate that cost, it'd be better to mod CVS to be able to >easily reference the base of a branch tag (as the branch point tag is done >to get around problems in the CVS user interface.) A front end to add the branch point tag after the fact is be pretty trivial. I just wrote freefall:~fenner/bin/tagbp as a proof of concept; it could obviously use a little more error checking but it gets the revision right on everything I tried it on. Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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