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Re: repository copy of FreeBSD i386 config file.
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 07:05:29AM -0700, Geoff Keating wrote:
> > > I would like to see gcc/config/i386/freebsd.h,v repository copied to
> > > gcc/config/i386/freebsd-aout.h,v (I have a script to fixup the tags).
> > > [...]
> > > Doing such repository copies (ie, moving and coping files around w/in
> > > the repository) is documented in the CVS docs.
> >
> > I'm not sure whether we really want to do that (Basically, this is a
> > shortcoming of CVS that cannot be solved completely satisfactory)
> > or the following...
>
> I think we really _don't_ want to do that. It means that anyone who
> checks out the release branch would find it doesn't work on freebsd.
Why do you think that? I assure you, this is not the case. We do repo
copies on a regular basis in the FreeBSD CVS repository. And that is
even mirrored by many, many thousands of people.
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-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)