Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 14:52:44 -0400 From: Richard Coleman <richardcoleman@mindspring.com> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Up-to-date INDEXes may now be downloaded from www.freebsd.org Message-ID: <40AA5B7C.2080205@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <200405171253.45991.linimon@lonesome.com> References: <20040517014925.GB46196@xor.obsecurity.org> <40A8CB94.1040102@mindspring.com> <200405171253.45991.linimon@lonesome.com>
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Mark Linimon wrote: > On Monday 17 May 2004 09:26 am, Richard Coleman wrote: > > >>Why not auto-commit them to CVS? > > > Because at that point you not only bloat the master CVS repo > (these things are 5M, and there are two of them, and this is > happening hourly?), but you also force everyone who tracks > the ports tree by (e.g.) cvsup to download each and every > one of the diffs every time it changes (that's how CVS works > internally). > > mcl It's too bad there's not a way to force a commit to 1.0.1 (or whatever the original repo number is) and have it over-write the previous commit. The only way I can think of doing this is to physically remove the file in the repo first. I guess that's not worth it. Oh well, was just wondering. Richard Coleman richardcoleman@mindspring.com
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