From: Andrew Main <zefram@tao.co.uk>
To: hzoli@frontiernet.net (Zoltan Hidvegi)
Cc: pws@ifh.de, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: SunSITE CVS repository
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 17:54:27 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199804291654.RAA17429@taos.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199804291608.LAA30296@frontiernet.net> from "Zoltan Hidvegi" at Apr 29, 98 11:08:04 am
Zoltan Hidvegi wrote:
>I would think that the purpose of the CVS repository would be to be to
>store the authentic source as it would appear in the next release.
Not necessarily. I've already explained this at least once: a CVS
repository *could* be used for that, but it could also be used merely
to keep track of different versions and patches.
> Unless Zefram does this himself, how can you be sure that
>a patch you check in would show up unmodified in the release?
Obviously, if a repository is not the master source, then patches still
have to go via zsh-workers.
-zefram
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-04-29 17:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-04-27 11:51 Andrew Main
1998-04-29 9:26 ` Peter Stephenson
1998-04-29 16:08 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1998-04-29 16:54 ` Andrew Main [this message]
1998-04-29 18:23 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1998-04-29 18:56 ` Greg Badros
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