Re: CVS commit: src/sys

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

    Date:        Fri, 17 Apr 2020 15:37:33 +0200
    From:        Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
    Message-ID:  <20200417133733.GA5322%antioche.eu.org@localhost>

  | And that would be a problem for me. I regulary update a single file to a
  | specific revision in a source tree.

Me too - I pull the current sh into NetBSD 8 (and I guess 9 now too,
though I haven't done that yet) and build it there for some people who
like to test and report bugs.

(Then I send them the binary to run on their system ... these tend to
be bare bones "base only" type systems whose only purpose in existing
is to test the shell.)

Everything is -8 except the contents of src/bin/sh which is -HEAD.
Not being able to easily do that kind of thing would be a nuisance.

I could obviously still do it, just by

	cp -rp HEAD/src/bin/sh 8/src/bin

but methods like that are kind of ugly ... and certainly don't comply
with any assumption that the entire collection of files has a single
commit ID.

kre