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Date:      Sun, 13 Aug 2000 01:16:03 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Build breakage (was: fail to compile kernel...)
Message-ID:  <20000813011603.B4215@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <200008130714.BAA07153@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 01:14:09AM -0600
References:  <14742.15675.412839.269577@guru.mired.org> <14742.14082.837564.871879@guru.mired.org> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10008131504560.77390-100000@RedDust.BlueSky.net.au> <200008130553.XAA06673@harmony.village.org> <14742.15675.412839.269577@guru.mired.org> <200008130714.BAA07153@harmony.village.org>

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On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 01:14:09AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> : Won't the 'cvs diff' command tell you about such things? If not,
> : that's yet another argument for ditching cvs in favor of something
> : without so many flaws (like Perforce).
> 
> Not when the files are in multiple different directories and you have
> mutliple patches cooking in your tree.  I committed files in
> sys/pccard, but they depended on one in sys/dev/pccard which I
> honestly thought I'd checked in with an earlier newcard fix.  I'd been
> running the patches long enough that I basically forgot.

Which is why I keep a virgin src checkout and I CVSup (with "-i") right
after large commit and try building the code again in the virgin tree.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)


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