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Date:      Sun, 8 Oct 2000 23:08:57 -0700
From:      Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>
To:        eivind@yes.no
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Stable branch
Message-ID:  <200010090608.XAA13132@windsor.research.att.com>
References:   <4.3.2.20001007214506.00bb7c10@207.227.119.2> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1001007232657.90573A-100000@fledge.watson.org> <20001008131908.B78013@warning.follo.net>

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>Warner's technique of adding the branch tag for only those files we actually
>modify would negate the 30-byte cost, but I don't think it is worthwhile. 
>If we want to negate that cost, it'd be better to mod CVS to be able to
>easily reference the base of a branch tag (as the branch point tag is done
>to get around problems in the CVS user interface.)

A front end to add the branch point tag after the fact is be pretty trivial.
I just wrote freefall:~fenner/bin/tagbp as a proof of concept; it could
obviously use a little more error checking but it gets the revision right
on everything I tried it on.

  Bill


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