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Re: SunSITE CVS repository

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From: Andrew Main <zefram@xxxxxxxxx>
To: hzoli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Zoltan Hidvegi)
Subject: Re: SunSITE CVS repository
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 17:54:27 +0100 (BST)
Cc: pws@xxxxxx, zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <199804291608.LAA30296@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from "Zoltan Hidvegi" at Apr 29, 98 11:08:04 am

Zoltan Hidvegi wrote:
>I would think that the purpose of the CVS repository would be to be to
>store the authentic source as it would appear in the next release.

Not necessarily.  I've already explained this at least once: a CVS
repository *could* be used for that, but it could also be used merely
to keep track of different versions and patches.

>             Unless Zefram does this himself, how can you be sure that
>a patch you check in would show up unmodified in the release?

Obviously, if a repository is not the master source, then patches still
have to go via zsh-workers.

-zefram

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