Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 09:05:56 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <trimyourcc@polstra.com> To: arch@freebsd.org Cc: tlambert@primenet.com Subject: Re: NO MORE '-BETA' Message-ID: <200103191705.f2JH5t004397@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <200103182343.QAA18756@usr05.primenet.com> References: <200103182343.QAA18756@usr05.primenet.com>
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In article <200103182343.QAA18756@usr05.primenet.com>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> wrote: > > > > care to do. How does CVSup in checkout mode handle local mods? > > > > > > Its head explodes. > > > > "check out" mode -- ie, _NOT_ CVSuping the repo, just doing the equiv of > > a ``cvs co''. > > Its head still explodes because of the greedy diff algorithm. It's head does not explode, Terry. It serves no useful purpose at all to spread this kind of FUD on the mailing lists. In checkout mode, the server simply wins and your local mods go away. If it is crashing for you then most likely you have been using the "-s" option without heeding the very explicit and clear warning in the man page. Otherwise it is a bug which you have never reported to me, the maintainer of the software. Your complaint about the language tools being too big to use might have been reasonable in 1996, but it looks pretty silly these days. There are numerous commonly-used software packages which are much larger. There are ports and packages for the Modula-3 tools which are just as easy to install as any of the other ports and packages. And if you aren't willing or able to learn a new programming language then you could at least take the trouble to report any bugs you find, INCLUDING full information which would enable me to reproduce them and fix them. I do agree it would be nice if CVSup could check out the current sources and import them onto the vendor branch of a local repository. That has been on my desired feature list for a long time. Unfortunately, I don't see myself having time to implement it in the near future, unless the economy falls apart to the point that I don't have any paywork to do any more. :-) John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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