Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 15:17:35 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Richard Coleman <richardcoleman@mindspring.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Up-to-date INDEXes may now be downloaded from www.freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040518221735.GA38658@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <40AA5B7C.2080205@mindspring.com> References: <20040517014925.GB46196@xor.obsecurity.org> <40A8CB94.1040102@mindspring.com> <200405171253.45991.linimon@lonesome.com> <40AA5B7C.2080205@mindspring.com>
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--UugvWAfsgieZRqgk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 02:52:44PM -0400, Richard Coleman wrote: > Mark Linimon wrote: >=20 > >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 >=20 > It's too bad there's not a way to force a commit to 1.0.1 (or whatever=20 > the original repo number is) and have it over-write the previous commit.= =20 > The only way I can think of doing this is to physically remove the=20 > file in the repo first. I guess that's not worth it. Oh well, was just= =20 > wondering. That would make it worse since cvsup would send the *entire* file to every cvsup user once an hour. Kris --UugvWAfsgieZRqgk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAqot+Wry0BWjoQKURArfGAJ9UmT5vPzUiBXmWU1kMcTe3uMupsACfdPMv CQoXx0xA6TXbYTkejG/7sKE= =L3FX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UugvWAfsgieZRqgk--
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