cvs commit: src/contrib/cvs - Imported sources

[Peter Wemm]

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Garance A Drosehn <gad at freebsd.org> wrote:
> At 2:33 PM -0400 5/6/08, John Baldwin wrote:
>
> > On Wednesday 19 March 2008 10:47:03 am David E. O'Brien wrote:
> >
> > >  obrien      2008-03-19 14:47:03 UTC
> > >
> > >   FreeBSD src repository
> > >
> > >   src/contrib/cvs - Imported sources
> > >   Update of /home/ncvs/src/contrib/cvs
> > >   In directory repoman.freebsd.org:/tmp/cvs-serv25516
> > >     Log Message:
> > >
> >  >   Import of 1.11 branch snapshot - using the 10-March-2008 code base.
> >
>
>
>
> > Please consider reverting this.  There have been lots of reports of
> > CVS breakage after these changes.  The latest I ran into today is
> > that 'cvs  update -C' doesn't work anymore.
> >
>
>  What would the original change affect?
>
>  A minor oddity I noticed:  Today I checked out something from the
>  freebsd repository to my Mac, and the path as stored in CVS/Repository
>  was         src/usr.bin/env
>  instead of  /home/ncvs/src/usr.bin/env
>
>  This, in turn, confused some scripts I have.
>
>  HOWEVER, it may have been awhile since the last time I did a checkout
>  like the one I did today, so I do not know if this particular quirk
>  is at all related to the recent import of 'cvs'.

The CVS/Repository file has been relative to CVS/Root for a very long
time.  Stuff I checked out years ago has the relative path there.

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