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Re: The pain of committing ChangeLogs...
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Subject: Re: The pain of committing ChangeLogs...
- From: Russ Allbery <rra at stanford dot edu>
- Date: 10 Jan 2001 19:06:45 -0800
- Organization: The Eyrie
- References: <6132.979178067@localhost.localdomain>
Jeffrey A Law <law@redhat.com> writes:
> That would make it impossible to check out previous GCC releases. So we
> don't want to completely rotate the ChangeLog (ie we don't want to
> restart at rev #1).
> We do want to rotate the ChangeLog to make it smaller because that does
> improve update & commit times.
One possibility if rotation doesn't solve all the problems is to outdate
all untagged revisions using cvs admin. That deletes them from the ,v
file on the server and should still preserve the ability to check out any
tagged revision.
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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>