Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 18:58:45 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> To: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> Cc: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Archive pruning Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000425185208.90033C-100000@shell-2.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <20000425133242.A42075@wopr.caltech.edu>
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On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Matthew Hunt wrote: > Maintaining a CVS repository is necessary only if you are working > on the code, so your proposal would only affect devlopers, not Joe > User. Normal users do not maintain copies of the repository and do > not have a frequent need to examine history. There's always cvsweb > for occasional browsing. This isn't quite true. A repository is very handy if you have a number of different enviornments, two or three STABLEs with different date stamps, say. That's not ideal, but it can be much easier than regression testing a bunch of applications. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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