Re: [ANNOUNCE] BK->CVS (real time mirror)

From: Larry McVoy (lm@bitmover.com)
Date: Wed Mar 12 2003 - 17:30:13 EST

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On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 02:21:49PM -0800, David Lang wrote:
> and if you did real-time updates but once a month or so redid the
> 'longest-path' thing that would change the CVS version info, correct?

Exactly. So if we redo it then anyone who has active CVS workspaces will
get the wrong thing when they update if the revs have moved around and
they will.

I suspect the right answer is that we do the real time updates, see how it
goes, if it starts to suck we'll periodically toss the CVS tree and start
over.

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