[BCCed to -stable]

Hi all,

I was used to stable-supfile used to track -stable and standard-supfile
used to track -current.

Since april 2001 this is no more the case, and standard-supfile tracks
the branch it was originally pulled from.

I don't want to go into a bikeshed painting contest, but I have a
suggested modification to src/examples/cvsup/README that at least
explains to the unawary what has changed.

Feel free to edit to taste.

thanks
Marco
--- README.old  Wed Mar 27 16:51:02 2002
+++ README      Wed Mar 27 17:11:42 2002
@@ -5,6 +5,17 @@
 with CVSup version 14.0 or later.  For general information on CVSup
 itself, please see http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/cvsup.html
 
+WARNING: There are two "standard-supfile". Keep reading for details.
+
+Since april 2001, "standard-supfile" defaults to the branch from which
+the file came.  So if you pull down RELENG_4 it defaults to RELENG_4,
+if you pull down -current it defaults to -current.
+
+An easy way to get the latest "standard-supfile" for the branch you are
+interested in is to browse the CVS web interface at
+http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile
+
+
 To maintain the sources for the FreeBSD-current release, use:
 
     standard-supfile           Main source tree
@@ -14,6 +25,10 @@
 To maintain the sources for the FreeBSD-stable release, use:
 
     stable-supfile             Main source tree
+
+    or
+
+    standard-supfile           Main source tree
 
 To maintain a copy of the CVS repository containing all versions of
 FreeBSD, use:

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