From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 28 12:49:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA24621 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 12:49:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA24608; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 12:48:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-2) with ESMTP id UAA07052; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 20:48:00 +0100 (BST) To: Warner Losh cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , James Raynard , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: cvs-cur-2135 In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 28 Jun 1996 13:22:31 MDT." <199606281922.NAA21442@rover.village.org> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 20:47:59 +0100 Message-ID: <7049.835991279@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Warner Losh wrote in message ID <199606281922.NAA21442@rover.village.org>: > However, thinking about that, it strikes me as too dangerous. If > someone did a checkout on the partial delta, then things could be very > broken. So forget that I said anything :-) You said something? :-) > I'm not sure how having a mail robot would solve this problem unless > you could ask it to retransmit part 27 of 40 because that somehow got > lost/damaged in transit. 'cos the robot would have the ability to split it like it was originally and only resend the missing bit(s) if you ask nicely... Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info