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Date:      Wed, 13 Sep 1995 13:00:16 +0800 (WST)
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@jhome.DIALix.COM>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net>
Cc:        David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>, CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-usrbin@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/find function.c 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.950913122336.1261B-100000@jhome.DIALix.COM>
In-Reply-To: <199509130411.WAA08566@rocky.sri.MT.net>

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On Tue, 12 Sep 1995, Nate Williams wrote:
> Peter Wemm writes:
> > IMHO, This really would have been best done as three commits...   It 
> > might have made David raise an eyebrow when looking over the log, but at 
> > least it would have been obvious what was going on... :-)
> 
> True, and shown my stupidity in not doing the job right the first time.
> When in doubt, cover your tracks.
> 
> I can see it now.  Nate lost his commit privs during CVS-water/White-CVS
> when he attempted to coverup all of his stupid mistakes.

Hey, we're all human!  Mistakes are part of the job, wear them with 
pride!  :-)  (and you sometimes get a free conical hat! :-)

I suspect if you grep the commit log for "aargh", "damn" and "oops", you'd 
find more than a few.

Sorry if this sounded like the "spanish inquisition" or something.  I 
know what you did was harmless, but I just couldn't let it go uncommented 
on in case some of the other 52 committers decided that it was ok to do 
rcs or cvs admin operations on the repository, especially for minor things.  
(that way leads to madness)

Lets chalk this one up to experience..

And as a general statement:  Please folks, keep away from the admin 
commands.  If somebody botches something badly it can be a real nightmare 
to fix.




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