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Re: PATCH: other/20731: contrib/gcc_update hard code -r gcc-3_4-branch
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 05:38:13PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Apr 2, 2005, "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> wrote:
>
> > This patch will make sure cvs update picks up the branch from CVS/Tag.
>
> Which will probably defeat the whole point of the original patch,
> which IIRC was to get things to work even with a CVS that didn't
> support per-directory stick tags. There's no other reason to pass the
If it is the only reason, why don't we require a minimum cvs version?
> branch name explicitly otherwise AFAIK, and it's actually harmful as
> Richard Earnshaw pointed out. Personally, I'd much rather have the
> original patch reverted, and get whoever uses such an ancient version
> of cvs to upgrade or pass the -r option explicitly.
That will work for me.
H.J.