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Re: Results of egrep -l '^<<<<<<< |^=======$|^>>>>>>> |^\|\|\|\|\|\|\| '
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Greg A. Woods |
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Re: Results of egrep -l '^<<<<<<< |^=======$|^>>>>>>> |^\|\|\|\|\|\|\| ' |
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Wed, 18 Jul 2001 23:53:38 -0400 (EDT) |
[ On Wednesday, July 18, 2001 at 18:04:11 (-0700), Paul Sander wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Results of egrep -l '^<<<<<<< |^=======$|^>>>>>>>
> |^\|\|\|\|\|\|\| '
>
> You seem to forget that CVS is in the equation somewhere, that someone in
> this shop must import it as-is, and make local modifications.
No, I'm most certainly not forgetting CVS is in the picture.
I'm just not so stupid as to assume that I can run "cvs diff | Mail vendor"
and get any satisfaction.
> It's not
> uncommon for shops that license source code of other shops' source code
> to exchange ports and bug fixes. I personally did it for both System V
> and Solaris sources, as well as some free software.
Duh. Yeah, I do the same for literally gigabytes of free software,
including at least two entire operating system releases. So far so good.
> In all cases, the
> vendors were not receptive to gratuitous changes, so anything we did to
> appease CVS was rejected.
Well, "Duh!" See above.
> In cases like this, if CVS *requires* a change to the source code to make
> CVS allow it to be stored in its repository, then we would face a unwanted
> and unneeded and arbitrary overhead.
Well, at least some of the "vendors" I use code from are already CVS
users so they've already avoided the issue for me.... Maybe if everyone
used CVS we'd all have one big happy family! ;-)
> So yes, this is definitely a CVS
> issue.
No, it is not a CVS issue -- nobody in their right mind would expect
anything different. You're grasping at non-existant straws here, again.
> CVS must not impose any restrictions on the files it accepts into
> its repository.
BS. You're WAY too late (about a decade late). CVS began to impose
restrictions on the files it accepts before a single line of its code
was ever written. GET OVER IT!
--
Greg A. Woods
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