From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 20 16:48:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA25637 for stable-outgoing; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 16:48:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from freebie.dcfinc.com (freebie.dcfinc.com [138.113.2.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA25626 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 16:48:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chad@freebie.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freebie.dcfinc.com (8.8.3/8.8.3a) id RAA04475; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 17:46:30 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <199711210046.RAA04475@freebie.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: Version Resolution? To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 17:46:29 -0700 (MST) Cc: chad@dcfinc.com, nate@mt.sri.com, rkw@dataplex.net, brian@awfulhak.org, andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199711210040.RAA12221@mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Nov 20, 97 05:40:18 pm" Reply-to: chad@dcfinc.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > But there are (can be) seperate copies of newvers.sh in each branch? > > Seems it would be an administrative procedure to touch it correctly as > > part of creating a new branch. How often does that happen? Couple of > > times a year? > > More than that, but as I stated before, file corruption even *once* > isn't acceptable. The number of problems that will occur when a branch > occurs (and everyone and his dog decides to finally download things) > means that the # of questions due to bogus files is now bigger than the > number of questions solved by implementing the solution. I'm obviously ignorant of the discussions you had with Richard. Can you explain the "file corruption" you imagine? -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL22) Brother, can you paradigm? 602-953-1392 chad@dcfinc.com chad@anasazi.com crl22@aol.com DCF, Inc. - 14523 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254