Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 21:34:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> Subject: Re: laying down tags Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906202131420.47432-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990621093123.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 20-Jun-99 Chuck Robey wrote: > > > Consider it preventative measures, several major overhauls of the > > > VM, NFS and FS have occurred, had one of these mega commits been > > > proven to be flawed in a major way it would have probably been > > > extremely annoying to deal with, no? > > Maybe I'm wrong, it seemed to me I could merely note the time of that > > mega-commit (the one I woulc be bothered by) and ask cvs to roll back > > the clock to that time. Zero cost in space to do this. > > Yes, but if I'm trying to track down a bug and I want to roll back > my tree to before a certain commit a tag is much easier to deal with > than a date.. I think I know Jordan well enough, he wouldn't have made his statement without there being more behind it. No one would consider that a fair trade, all that huge bloat of the archive, if the effect gained was only an easy way to remember a rollback timestamp. I never saw the use of it in FreeBSD, which probably means we've been lucky. The only really great use of tags I saw, was tagging releases, so that establishes a real solid pointer to each release timestamp. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@picnic.mat.net | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic and jaunt, both FreeBSD-current. (301) 220-2114 | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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