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Date:      Sat, 9 Aug 2003 17:02:06 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/contrib/dev/acpica/compiler adisasm.c getopt.c
Message-ID:  <20030810000206.GB56604@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030809130904.GC97705@sunbay.com>
References:  <200308071642.h77GgQrJ097893@repoman.freebsd.org> <XFMail.20030807130007.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20030809130904.GC97705@sunbay.com>

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On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 04:09:04PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 01:00:07PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> > 
> > On 07-Aug-2003 Nate Lawson wrote:
> > > njl         2003/08/07 09:42:26 PDT
> > > 
> > >   FreeBSD src repository
> > > 
> > >   Removed files:
> > >     sys/contrib/dev/acpica/compiler adisasm.c getopt.c 
> > >   Log:
> > >   Remove two files that were imported in the wrong directory.
> > 
> > Perhaps cvs@ should remove the associated ,v files before they spread
> > very far?
> > 
> Please don't.  Removing files and re-adding them (with the
> new contents but an old revision number) causes all sorts
> of disaster ("cvs update" doesn't see the update).  We've
> been through this when someone surgered contrib/binutils/
> this way.

This was a totally different thing -- and that was GCC, not binutils.
It is proper for cvs@ to rm ,v files from the Attic that will never be
re-added later in that same location.



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