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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:58:41 -0500
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] sources/contrib
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> > replica was already there,
> 
> I don't like replica, it is too fragile and too slow, but I don't
> think my opinion on this matters much.
> 
> (Now that we have python we could use hg... although I fail to quite
> see the issue with plain tarballs)

might depend on what you're doing.

when updating something on sources, i find it much easier
to copy the few modified files than to fiddle around making
a tarball. i also appreciate being able to use standard tools
on the beast in place like diff, history, etc.

it's been less error-prone for me, too.

- erik