From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 6 00:21:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA14097 for current-outgoing; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 00:21:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA14083 Sat, 6 Apr 1996 00:21:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA09113; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 10:21:06 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA16842; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 10:21:06 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id KAA06982; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 10:15:33 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604060815.KAA06982@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: sup/cvs tags To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 10:15:32 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: mpp@freefall.freebsd.org (Mike Pritchard) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199604052259.OAA19443@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Mike Pritchard" at Apr 5, 96 02:59:05 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Mike Pritchard wrote: > > In the future can we try and avoid tagging the kernel source tree > except at release time? The wollman_polling tag is causing anyone > who sups the cvs files to receive every file in /usr/src/sys just > because of the new tag. This looks to be about 33 megabytes of data, > which is quite painful over a slow link. Don't use sup if you've got a slow link. CTM handles this much more graceful (only the diff line with the tag is transferred per file). I think vendor branches are a good means to integrate things into the source tree that should for some reason not yet appear in the HEAD but be available for more than one developer. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)