From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <32d987d50711200757y359e7a45k26876ebe2626ea8c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:57:45 -0300 From: "Federico Benavento" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] sources/contrib In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <32d987d50711200746j51c8c6b6q2fa55b3cf45d237d@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 029b644a-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 lsr, replica, for me are the same. I don't wan't people to have to download a big .tgz just because I edited one line of code. Plus with the ported stuff it gets worst, there are people that because of lack of memory, or whatever can't even build the libs, that's why I'm including binaries replica was already there, the principle still applies, you can't keeping track of files inside tar files is not the same. On Nov 20, 2007 12:53 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > > or we could just leave things as they are > > making difficult to keep track of changes. > > if one is without replica, one can track changes on sources > with history and ls -ltr. > > this is how i keep track of changes on my systems so > it's more consistent, if not better, than using replica. > > - erik > > -- Federico G. Benavento