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Date:      Sat, 12 Feb 2000 20:15:42 -0800 (PST)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net>
Cc:        "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /usr/ports/ too big?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002122011480.97914-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <00021020011700.00825@localhost.localdomain>

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On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Richard Wackerbarth wrote:

> > Nobody's forcing you to keep the CVS tree. 
> Yes, they (defacto) are. I need access to the recent history in order
> to deal with "bleeding edge" problems. What I don't need is all of the
> ancient history on line.

Then your particular usage requirements for FreeBSD are incompatible with
the currently-available tools in the world today, and the only solution is
for you to write a replacement to CVS which is fully backwards-compatible
with it, but which allows you to discard old history. But given that this
doesn't seem to be a problem for anyone but you I don't think your chances
are very good of getting FreeBSD to switch to it.

People who don't like keeping the revision history around use cvsup and
store nothing but the latest version of the system. People who want
history locally swallow the few extra megabytes of disk space and take the
entire revision history.

Kris

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