On Sep 20,  6:52pm, perry@piermont.com ("Perry E. Metzger") wrote:
-- Subject: Re: Repo-copy request: evbppc port for OpenBlockS266

Repo copies are out of favor. There was a long discussion some time ago
where the pros and cons were discussed, and the consensus was no more
repo copies because they break checkout by date.

christos

| 
| my understanding was also that repo copies were out of favor.
| 
| .pm
| 
| Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org> writes:
| 
| > On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Shigeyuki Fukushima wrote:
| > 
| > > Hello,
| > >
| > > I have worked on porting to OpenBlockS266 box (see also
| > > http://people.freebsd.org/~shige/netbsd/obs266/).
| > > Now, I'm trying to commit my works into the NetBSD repository.
| > >
| > > For the present, I think that I need to repo-copy files
| > > listed in the below, because we want to keep CVS changing-history
| > > of these files.
| > 
| > I thought repo-copying was out of favor because cvs doesn't handle the
| > dead versions well.
| > 
| > Take care,
| > 
| > Bill
| > 
| 
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| Perry E. Metzger		perry@piermont.com
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