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Date:      Wed, 24 Jan 2001 09:26:07 -0800 (PST)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, kris@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/tcpdump print-smb.c
Message-ID:  <200101241726.JAA02576@curve.dellroad.org>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010123221817.jhb@FreeBSD.org> "from John Baldwin at Jan 23, 2001 10:18:17 pm"

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John Baldwin writes:
> >> No. From now on, every new vendor release of that file will need to
> >> have patches merged by hand.
> > 
> > By hand? The "cvs update -j .. -j .." or whatever that you do after
> > an import should take care of all of the non-conflicting
> > modifications
> > for all of the files at once.  So there should be zero extra work
> > caused by this change, unless I'm misunderstanding something (I'm
> > not a CVS expert).
> 
> See the committers guide, it has a FAQ for this:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/committers-guide/article.html

So from my reading of that, the only problem is the size of the
repository file (and associated side effects on things like cvsup),
not that anybody has to do any extra work... correct?

Presumably an MFC of the same fix wouldn't make the damage any worse (?)

-Archie

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