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Date:      Sat, 3 Jul 1999 16:30:59 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Brian F. Feldman" <green@unixhelp.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
Cc:        mjacob@feral.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fixing other people's code (was: world broken in vinum (PATCH))
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907031630280.38566-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
In-Reply-To: <199907031900.NAA28825@harmony.village.org>

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On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Warner Losh wrote:

> In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907022157450.1622-100000@semuta.feral.com> Matthew Jacob writes:
> : You have to wait at least a little bit because with CVS there is no atomic
> : update of a set of modules. IF make world is broken, waiting at least a
> : certain period of time and then doing another update is important to
> : ensure that you just simply updated only part of a an active checkin
> : cycle.
> 
> Which is why when I hit this, I check the commit messages.  I also do
> a cvsup to freefall (normally I just hit one of the mirrors) and see
> if the problem is in the sources of the moment.  If the problem
> persisits, I either see if it is trivial to fix and/or send mail to
> the committer.  Sometimes, if I'm thinking, I'll see if they are
> actively logged into freefall and contact them there....

Checking commit messages was the first thing I did, in this case.

> 
> I do realize this isn't an option for everybody, but has worked for me
> in the past.
> 
> Warner
> 
> 
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