From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Mar 13 13:58:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from green.bikeshed.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8373F37B405; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 13:58:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by green.bikeshed.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2DLwW611237; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 16:58:34 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from green@green.bikeshed.org) Message-Id: <200203132158.g2DLwW611237@green.bikeshed.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Garance A Drosihn , obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, Julian Elischer , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unmoronify CVS In-Reply-To: Your message of "13 Mar 2002 22:00:56 +0100." From: "Brian F. Feldman" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 16:58:32 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Garance A Drosihn 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. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''''''''''\ <> green@FreeBSD.org <> bfeldman@tislabs.com \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own. \,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,\ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message