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Re: Repairing erroneous move of setup-200303 branch tag
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Max Bowsher <maxb at ukf dot net>
- Cc: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 17:30:44 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Repairing erroneous move of setup-200303 branch tag
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Max Bowsher wrote:
> The setup-200303 branch tag has been inadvertantly moved, leaving the
> original branch untagged and inaccessible, and also giving rise to the
> insanely long version number assigned to the current setup snapshot.
>
> I've inspected the RCS files, and can restore the setup-200303 to it's
> correct location - but I will need to directly edit the RCS files.
> (Obviously I will do a test run on a local copy of the repository first).
>
> Advantages:
> * Repository would be less confusing to someone inspecting it at a later
> date.
> * We can have a less silly version number for our next release setup.
> * Simple tidyness.
>
> Disadvantages:
> * I'll need to lock the relevant directories (setup and libgetopt++) for
> about 15 minutes
>
> Comments?
> Max.
Well, as far as I'm concerned, the cleaner the repository - the better.
So, FWIW, I say go for it (if it ever gets to voting).
Igor
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