Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 20:44:09 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans), jkh@time.cdrom.com, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-share@freefall.freebsd.org, jkh@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/doc/handbook ... Message-ID: <199703221244.UAA24780@spinner.DIALix.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 16 Mar 1997 11:23:41 %2B0100." <19970316112341.LC40404@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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J Wunsch wrote: > As Bruce Evans wrote: > > > `cvs -j' seems to be more braindamaged than I thought. > > I also noticed during the release engineering that it's royally > broken. It often resulted in not applying the patch at all. > > Right now, using it for serious work is a pain in the *ss. Yes, it's broken by design. 'cvs update -jHEAD' is basically the equivalent of: 'cvs rdiff -rRELENG_2_2_BP -rHEAD | patch'. Each time you run it, it gets progressively worse since it has no memory of you doing the merge last time, or the time before that, or before that, and so on. This is one area that perforce is excellent!! Cheers, -Peter
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