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Subject: Re: cvsup -> down?
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Bill Moran wrote:
> Hey all.
> 
> This seems like a really dumb question to me, but I'm having such a rough
> last two weeks that I'd rather be sure by sounding stupid, than by looking
> stupid.
> 
> What I'm doing is upgrading a machine to RELEASE_5_1 (to take care of the
> recent arp problems) and I wasn't paying attention when I started 
> cvsupping,
> and accidentally started it cvsupping to HEAD instead.  I realized my
> mistake halfway through and canceled it.  Then restarted it with the
> proper "tag=RELENG_5_1"

I'd throw it all away and start again as you suggest as a second 
alternative.

This assumes you have a set up like I have: one machine that cvsup's 
against an official cvsup host, and then that machine is used the 
source for the rest of the machines. Makes the cvsups go really fast.

Later,
David