Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 14:08:54 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray) Cc: andrew@sour.cream.org, FreeBSD-Stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CTM Release Generation - (Re: Stable and CTM) Message-ID: <199810261308.OAA02338@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199810261416.QAA27648@gratis.grondar.za> from "Mark Murray" at Oct 26, 98 04:16:18 pm
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> Andrew Boothman wrote: > > As the handbook states, there is no documentation on the creation of CTM > > deltas so could you enlighten me as to why multiple source trees are > > needed? Surely it is more or less a diff between the code as frozen on the > > release date, and the code as it stands today? > > Yes. 1 copy for "release code", one copy for "current code". Multiply > that by N for our different releases, the CVS tree and the ports > collection, and things add up a tad. i am just jumping in on the middle of a discussion so apologies if i say stupid things... but isn't everything one needs in the CVS repository so _in theory_ at least one could ask cvs, file by file, to produce the differences without having to replicate things ? And, being things stored in cvs, the deltas from one version to the other of the same file are stored in a reasonable compact way... ... where is the code ? oh yes the code... cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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