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Re: [Monotone-devel] Please review: initial Attic patch
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Zack Weinberg |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] Please review: initial Attic patch |
Date: |
Thu, 11 Dec 2003 17:27:45 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
Tom Tromey <address@hidden> writes:
> A quick note on Attic directories: a ,v file is moved into Attic if
> and only if the tip of the trunk is dead. However, the location of
> the ,v file is redundant -- cvs also marks the revision as "State:
> dead". The existence of Attic is just a backward compatibility hack
> with versions of cvs predating the "dead" state support.
Some repositories (notably, IIRC, NetBSD core) have both foo,v and
Attic/foo,v - this is a hack way to rename files. Probably isn't
necessary to handle this yet, but I would suggest putting in a
'fail early and safe' check for the situation.
zw