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Date:      Mon, 23 Jul 2001 10:55:49 +1000
From:      Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>
To:        Lamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org>
Cc:        "A. L. Meyers" <a.l.meyers@consult-meyers.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: is "stable" "stable"? 
Message-ID:  <200107230055.KAA05691@lightning.itga.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 21 Jul 2001 11:27:01 -0700.

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> you should expect to
> occasionally see problems.  People will break the build.  People will have
> insufficiently tested their code and subsystems will break.

And CVS itself is not atomic, so there is always the possibility of you
grabbing a version half-way through a series of related and interdependent
commits. There is no obvious way of fixing this that will still scale to the
sort of load that the FreeBSD CVS system has to support.




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