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Date:      Wed, 13 Mar 2002 16:58:32 -0500
From:      "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Unmoronify CVS 
Message-ID:  <200203132158.g2DLwW611237@green.bikeshed.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "13 Mar 2002 22:00:56 %2B0100." <xzphenkfaif.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> 

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Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> wrote:
> Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> writes:
> > Sounds like -R should be fixed so it works right in this situation,
> > instead of providing a compile-time option to avoid the problem.
> > (mind you, I don't even know what "val-tags" are...)  Why should
> > someone have to recompile CVS just to get -R to work?
> 
> You don't get the point at all.  The val-tags stuff is *not needed*
> for *any purpose whatsoever* and *does not achieve the goal it was
> intended for* and *slows down any tag-related cvs operation by
> approximately half*.  It's just not worth fixing.  It is much simpler
> to just dike it out.
> 
> If it had been implemented correctly, val-tags might have been
> somewhat useful for small repos containing just one module (or a very
> few), but it's *not* implemented correctly and it simply makes no
> sense at all for larger repos with dozens or hundreds or thousands of
> modules.  It greatly pessimizes the common case and barely affects the
> rare case, and it generally pisses off anyone doing any serious amount
> of work with a read-only repo (or *any* repo that takes more than
> roughly three seconds to scan through)

To provide the appropriate misquotation:

BANG. BANG. BANG. BANG.
BANG. BANG. BANG. BANG.
click. click.
BANG. BANG. BANG. BANG.
BANG. BANG. BANG. BANG.
click. click.

Please, please, please remove it.

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