Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD?

Hi,

On 05 June 2012 1:09:50 Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 01:00:45PM +0700, Erich wrote:
> > All of these, with the exception of HEAD (which is always a valid tag),
> > only apply to the src/ tree. The ports/, doc/, and www/ trees are not
> > branched.
> 
> If you create a branch, you must create a tag for that branch.
> 
> However, you can create a tag without creating a branch.  That is what
> is done for the ports tree.
> 
I found now the point in which all normal users will give up:

The handbook states this:

Which version(s) of them do you want?

'With CVSup, you can receive virtually any version of the sources that ever existed. That is possible because the cvsupd server works directly from the CVS repository, which contains all of the versions. You specify which one of them you want using the tag= and date= value fields.

Warning: Be very careful to specify any tag= fields correctly. Some tags are valid only for certain collections of files. If you specify an incorrect or misspelled tag, CVSup will delete files which you probably do not want deleted. In particular, use only tag=. for the ports-* collections.'

Why should a normal user continue to search for a tag when the handbook is so clear on this?

Erich