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Date:      Tue, 12 Sep 1995 22:08:31 -0600
From:      Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
Cc:        peter@jhome.dialix.com (Peter Wemm), nate@rocky.sri.MT.net, CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-usrbin@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/find function.c
Message-ID:  <199509130408.WAA08549@rocky.sri.MT.net>
In-Reply-To: <199509130120.SAA04683@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.950913073448.513B-100000@jhome.DIALix.COM> <199509130120.SAA04683@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>

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[ Direct CVS repository munging ]
> > > Whip me, beat me, call me bad names, but don't take away my CVS
> > > privileges. :)
> 
> Per mail to this list these types of actions can lead to, and well
> if they cause the repository manager heartache, loss of commit privlidge.

Of course, but if a person knows what they are doing (or at least if
they can fake it) it avoids the heartache and grief.

> I will also presume that he knows that I can now find his commit in
> the commitlogs but can not find it in the RCS files :-(.

Yes, but it's *very* obvious what happened, since the next commit
message in the log is the fix which was mentioned in the previous (no
longer necessary) commitlog messages.

> Along with the fact some one could have supped 1.5, burned it on a
> cdrom and now what is 1.5 is a different file :-(.

If someone was silly enough to burn a CD-ROM of the tree in it's current
state, *AND* if they could get the sup to happen after my two original
commits but before the third, they deserved to get burned.



Nate



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