Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262177AbTFKOvb (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2003 10:51:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262192AbTFKOva (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2003 10:51:30 -0400 Received: from smtp.bitmover.com ([192.132.92.12]:29420 "EHLO smtp.bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262177AbTFKOv3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2003 10:51:29 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 08:05:06 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: Ben Collins Cc: Pascal Schmidt , Larry McVoy , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [BK-CVS gateway] version tags Message-ID: <20030611150506.GB20493@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: Larry McVoy , Ben Collins , Pascal Schmidt , Larry McVoy , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20030611135910.GO4695@phunnypharm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030611135910.GO4695@phunnypharm.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (score=0.3, required 7, AWL) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1382 Lines: 32 On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 09:59:10AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 04:44:37PM +0200, Pascal Schmidt wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > I noticed both the 2.4 and 2.5 BK->CVS trees don't have version tags > > any more (v2_5_70, for example, as in the old tree). > > > > Is this intentional? Did CVS take too long to tag all files or something? > > > > It was quite a nice feature to have them, very useful for finding out the > > differences between certain kernel versions. I can live without it, > > though. It's still a nice service without the tags. (Thanks!) > > Looks like the tags are on the ChangeSet file only. Which is why I > didn't notice. You could get a timestamp from the tag on ChangeSet and > use that for a -D argument. > > A quick script could do this for you. I think it's wise of Larry to keep > it this way. "Wise" is a stretch, more like a fortunate scripting screwup. But I agree with Ben, given that you can get the info another way it is a lot easier (i.e., thrashes the disk less) if we leave it as is. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/