Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 11:16:32 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: removing global from tree Message-ID: <200010141816.LAA14274@john.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <20001014155710.P25237@speedy.gsinet>
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On 14-Oct-00 Gerhard Sittig wrote: > On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 05:35 -0700, David O'Brien wrote: >> >> I didn't put it in the Attic when I disconnected it from the >> build in case someone came forward screaming about removing it. >> I figured it was much easier to back out a Makefile commit than >> get things from the Attic back to being alive. I had actually >> forgotten about it as no one did come forward. > > Up to now I always thought "the Attic" is something CVS itself > takes care of when "cvs rm"ing files. What's that special thing > needing manual intervention or special attention you've been > talking about lately? Is it for performance reasons or for the > warm fuzzy feelings of having "not too rotten a repo"? It is where CVS puts files when you cvs rm them. You just have to do the actual cvs rm/cvs ci. David was cautious because if he had to back the change out, he didn't want to have to try to cvs add all of the files back in. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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