From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 20 7:36:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 830A314BEC for ; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 07:36:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA79169; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 10:36:00 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 10:36:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: laying down tags In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > In short, I disagree completely with you on the question of tags. > > > > Would you mind giving one example where not having tags hurt us? > > I just want to fix in my head the type of thing, because it seems to me > > that the same effect could have been gotten another (cheaper) way, and > > one example will probably set me straight. > > Consider it preventative measures, several major overhauls of the > VM, NFS and FS have occurred, had one of these mega commits been > proven to be flawed in a major way it would have probably been > extremely annoying to deal with, no? Maybe I'm wrong, it seemed to me I could merely note the time of that mega-commit (the one I woulc be bothered by) and ask cvs to roll back the clock to that time. Zero cost in space to do this. > > -Alfred > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@picnic.mat.net | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic and jaunt, both FreeBSD-current. (301) 220-2114 | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message