Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 02:12:33 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: proposal: simple cvs mod to handle shared checked-out source trees Message-ID: <19981203021233.A18661@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <199812022303.QAA09143@mt.sri.com>; from Nate Williams on Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 04:03:42PM -0700 References: <199812022200.OAA19221@apollo.backplane.com> <199812022209.PAA08774@mt.sri.com> <199812022258.OAA19488@apollo.backplane.com> <199812022303.QAA09143@mt.sri.com>
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On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 04:03:42PM -0700, Nate Williams wrote: > > I use shell wrappers for relatively complex things, like getting JDK's > > to work or supporting multiple JDK revs on a single system (which you need > > to do if you want to write & test Java that is browser-compatible), but > > things are a whole lot more clean when a commonly used (or potentially > > commonly used) feature can be integrated into a program. > > Commonly used at your site, but very rarely (if at all) used at other > sites. The 'CVS' way of doing thing is to have each developer check out > their own copy of things, not to have a shared repository. Commonly used everywhere I've worked. And this is not because I initate it; I specifically try to get people to not do this unless it is clearly the most efficient way for them to work, and I can not remember ever having made the suggestion. Oh, and talking of yourself in the third person is unusual, to say the least ;-) (Nate and Peter are two of the 12 or so people that have commit privileges for CVS, according to the pages at cyclic.com) Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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