From owner-cvs-all Wed Aug 23 20:12: 0 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from netplex.com.au (adsl-63-207-30-186.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.207.30.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2858437B424; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 20:11:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from netplex.com.au (peter@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by netplex.com.au (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e7O3BOG68159; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 20:11:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <200008240311.e7O3BOG68159@netplex.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Cc: Josef Karthauser , Warner Losh , "David O'Brien" , Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven , Doug Barton , Ade Lovett , Jonathan Lemon , cvs-committers@FREEBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FREEBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes In-Reply-To: <200008231731.LAA12980@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 20:11:24 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nate Williams wrote: > > > > Although it should be a file in CVSROOT, and so will probably turn > > > > up with a cvsup of the repository. > > > > > > Obviously not under CVS control right? You may need to talk with John > > > Polstra about having a file that's constantly changing that is not under > > > CVS control, to make sure CVSup will 'Do The Right Thing'. > > > > Of course not :) :) I'd imagine that it would get handled in the same > > way as any of the prechecked out files in CVSROOT/. (history.README > > for instance :) > > Possibly, but there may be an optimization that could be done that John > would know about. I know that some of the files are handled 'special' > via CVSup configurations, which optimizes how they are updated. There is no problem with this, it will happen automagically without John needing to do anything. CVSup will replicate it as a plain file. Whether it uses rsync or simple replacement will be pretty much academic for such a small file. > Nate > Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message