Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:20:12 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Stephen McKay <mckay@thehub.com.au> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unmoronify CVS Message-ID: <20020314212012.9263E38CC@overcee.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <200203141420.g2EEKLP15630@dungeon.home>
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Stephen McKay wrote: > On Wednesday, 13th March 2002, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > >To summarize, val-tags saves a little time in a small number of cases, > >is useless in most cases, and outright harmful in many common cases. > > Val-tags has caused me nothing but irritation. It has never assisted > me in any way. It deserves to die. Who here is helped by val-tags? > It seems to be just plain wrong from the day it was added. val-tags does not work with distributed repositories, but it does work for non-distributed repos. The point of it is a speedup when you do have a complete list of known tags. It is there to stop your checked out tree geting trashed when you accidently type cvs up -r RELENG-4 (ie: misspelled). If val-tags does not list it, then it does an exhaustive search first. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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