From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 5 12:39:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D9B837B407 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 12:39:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f85Jd5g42517; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 12:39:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@wall.polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.11.6/8.11.0) id f85Jd4208229; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 12:39:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 12:39:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200109051939.f85Jd4208229@vashon.polstra.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org From: John Polstra Cc: nate@yogotech.com Subject: Re: local changes to CVS tree In-Reply-To: <15254.32102.836154.871291@nomad.yogotech.com> References: <20010905131027.A5476@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de> <15254.31457.818766.916542@nomad.yogotech.com> <200109051925.f85JPce08130@vashon.polstra.com> <15254.32102.836154.871291@nomad.yogotech.com> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <15254.32102.836154.871291@nomad.yogotech.com>, Nate Williams wrote: > So, you're saying that the person would choose the branch (which may > be RELENG_4 *OR* HEAD). Yep. For instance, a company might have a product that's based on RELENG_4, but with some local mods. So FreeBSD-4.x is in effect that company's "vendor". > I can see how that would work for RELENG_4, but for the HEAD, many > of the files on the HEAD in /usr/src/contrib are on vendor branches, > which means it would be a *nightmare* to get that right (IMO). It would still work just the same. You're just checking out -current and importing it onto your own vendor branch. You don't know or care about FreeBSD's vendor branch. Of course (and this is one of the big complications), CVSup would have to map the version numbers somehow. Another big complication would be that at some point in the future a user would want to switch from being based on RELENG_4 to being based on RELENG_5. I have a feeling that could get tricky for CVSup to deal with. > Although, it may not be as useful to developers, who often have > to track development in multiple branches (for MFC's). Right, it would be pretty worthless for FreeBSD developers. > > Maybe if the economy gets worse ... > > *sigh* Let's hope it doesn't come down to that. Just looking for that silver lining. Mom would be so proud of me. :-) John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message