On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > Todd T. Fries wrote: > > > Penned by Daniel Stone on Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 04:51:49PM +1000, we have: > > [..] > > | I did suggest this (mv hp,v hp.old,v). > > > > If you guys care about history at all, aka the ability to checkout files > > in the past, you would not suggest nor impement this suggestion. > > > > Does history matter when some people simply cannot checkout a tag set > because of a mistake that was made? The balanced response here is that > the history is not as important as making sure that all developers can > move forward. Of course, we do this only in rare circumstances, but > this is one of them.
I fetch older versions all the time - on xfree86, I did that, for instance to narrow down the range of dates for a bug introduced into the mouse driver. Having a known working version of something lets you cut down on the effort to isolate a bug. (Moving "forward" doesn't use the archives for anything except an odd backup format). -- T.E.Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
