From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 27 15:34:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA16686 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 15:34:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (SRI-56K-FR.mt.net [206.127.65.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA16678 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 15:34:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA01096; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 16:33:49 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA27878; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 16:33:46 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 16:33:46 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199709272233.QAA27878@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Richard Wackerbarth Cc: Nate Williams , Eivind Eklund , Chuck Robey , Eivind Eklund , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I check out a snapshot? In-Reply-To: References: <19970927191524.23340@bitbox.follo.net> <199709271529.RAA11811@bitbox.follo.net> <199709271930.NAA27312@rocky.mt.sri.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >All files are modified when tags are put down, so it means CTM deltas > >and CVS deltas are rather large, although the change for each file is > >rather small. > > A suggestion to consider. -- > > Suppose that the snapshots are always generated by using a CVS checkout > that never references the head directly. In other words, in a manner > that others can reproduce at a later time. (For example, a checkout > by date, using yesterday's date) Except that means lots more work for the release engineer. The RE has enough problems just making a release, making sure that the code is 'synchronized' to a certain date would make it that much harder. I think it would be 'easier' to simply tag the tree. Nate