From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1423 invoked from network); 29 Apr 1998 17:03:00 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 29 Apr 1998 17:03:00 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA19836; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 12:55:11 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 12:55:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Main Message-Id: <199804291654.RAA17429@taos.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: SunSITE CVS repository To: hzoli@frontiernet.net (Zoltan Hidvegi) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 17:54:27 +0100 (BST) Cc: pws@ifh.de, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <199804291608.LAA30296@frontiernet.net> from "Zoltan Hidvegi" at Apr 29, 98 11:08:04 am X-Loop: zefram@tao.co.uk X-Phase: The Moon is Waxing Crescent (15% of Full) X-Stardate: [-30]1078.52 X-US-Congress: moronic fuckers X-Headers: OTT X-Mouse: +++ ????? +++ Out Of Cheese Error. Redo From Start. X-Parrot: no, it's only resting. X-Personality: INTJ X-email-is-not-HTML: X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"Sn05N2.0.tr4.kjrHr"@math> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/3891 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu 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