Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 15:20:06 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: James Howard <howardjp@glue.umd.edu> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Porter's Handbook category violations Message-ID: <20000604152006.C42325@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0006040106330.6747-100000@z.glue.umd.edu> References: <20000603215053.B65314@dragon.nuxi.com> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0006040106330.6747-100000@z.glue.umd.edu>
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James Howard wrote: > On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, David O'Brien wrote: > >>> which ones should be repo-copied to security/ and then have their "net" > > Another dumb question, but what is a repo-copy? I understand it has > something to do with CVS, but not much more thna that. Short for repository copy, but you probably knew that. It basically means you copy file directly in the repository, i.e. # cd /home/ncvs/src/foo # cp foo,v bar,v Or in the case mentioned above, whole directories are copied. The purpose is to preserve the history in the CVS logs. If you just did a "cvs add" in the new location, that history would not be present in the new file, and you'd have to get the old file from the Attic to see it. If files in the Attic were deleted, that history would be gone forever. This has been asked before recently -- perhaps someone who can explain it better than me could send-pr a patch to add it to the "miscellaneous questions" section of the FAQ (it seems to fit in well there with the "what is an MFC" question, etc). If no-one wants to I might do it myself. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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