Status of the merge

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Thu May 3 02:31:10 UTC 2007


Roland McGrath (roland at redhat.com) said: 
> I'm now suddenly wondering if you might be doing something completely insane.
> The message I got kind of made it sound like fresh stuff was being added.  As
> if you imported files with fresh cvs commits.  Instead of copying the old
> repository directories from /cvs/dist to /cvs/extras with their RCS files
> completely intact, so that every developer's existing checkout can be
> salvaged just by diddling CVS/Root (and worst case CVS/Repository) files. 
> If you did that, I might just have to launch my doomsday weapon and end it all.

First, a fresh import was done. That generated said mail. Then, the current
contents were added. As that's not a CVS operation, that generated no mail;
hence, having mail on seemed pointless.

Bill




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