From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 27 10:11:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA02752 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 10:11:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earth.mat.net (root@earth.mat.net [206.246.122.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA02745 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 10:11:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Journey2.mat.net (journey2.mat.net [206.246.122.116]) by earth.mat.net (8.8.7/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA28053; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 13:11:28 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 01:11:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@Journey2.mat.net To: Eivind Eklund cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I check out a snapshot? In-Reply-To: <199709271529.RAA11811@bitbox.follo.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, Eivind Eklund wrote: > > Yes, I tag and then I build from that tag after resyncronizing my > > local repository. > > > > Unfortunately, tags are expensive and you don't just lay them down > > for fun. > > In what way are release tags expensive? I'm not sure exactly what Jordan was referring to, but I know that every time the tree gets tagged, a huge ctm delta is generated. I think this would mean a lot of net traffic also for folks using cvsup. In that way, it's very expensive and time consuming. I've been thinking of using > tags to make a commit a single operation instead of a bunch of changes > just connected by the commit-log, and for storing meta-information for > merges. With this and some merge-related tags (for storing > meta-information) syncing RELENG_* and -current the way we want should > become quite a bit easier. Are the tags so expensive this would be > non-feasible? I thought they would be a comparatively cheap way of > storing minor amounts of meta-information. > > Eivind. > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------