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Date:      Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:59:49 -0700
From:      John E Hein <jhein@timing.com>
To:        =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org, "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs tag renaming after repo copy
Message-ID:  <18374.55925.429800.520009@gromit.timing.com>
In-Reply-To: <86fxvd18te.fsf@ds4.des.no>
References:  <18373.33662.614583.231211@gromit.timing.com> <20080227201203.GA1101@zaphod.nitro.dk> <86fxvd18te.fsf@ds4.des.no>

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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote at 14:58 +0100 on Feb 28, 2008:
 > "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> writes:
 > > John Polstra has made a script (Fixtags) for it which we use for the=

 > > FreeBSD repository.  I don't think he has any problems with it being=

 > > distributed, but as it doesn't have a copyright statement i just wan=
t
 > > to ask before I distribute it...
 > =

 > Uh...  I wrote a replacement for that in 2001 (~des/bin/fixtags.pl).
 > I'm surprised you still use John's version, which is excruciatingly
 > slow, since 1) it's a shell script, 2) it's a *recursive* shell script=
,
 > 3) it runs rcs twice for every modified tag.
 > =

 > My version was under 3-clause BSD; I just switched it to 2-clause.

Sounds nice.  But for those of us aren't in the club and don't have a
freefall account (or wherever home dirs reside these days) ... ?



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