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Re: The pain of committing ChangeLogs...
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 07:06:45PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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.
That prevents use of the -D option when checking out files. In particular, I
sometimes do binary searches if I know a toolchain worked on a given day and
now it doesn't by checking out a tree as it was midway between the two dates,
doing a build, and iterating until I find which change broke the build. The
ChangeLog as it was at that date helps identify the guilty.
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