Re: The history of the Linux OS
Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Mon, 23 Nov 1998 18:02:51 +0100 (CET)
On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Simon Kenyon wrote:
> On 23-Nov-98 Riley Williams wrote:
> > I've been looking into setting up a CVS tree that will contain the
> > full kernel source history...
> > Put them in a CVS archive, and you replace "sum of kernel source
> > archive sizes" with "sum of upgrade patch file sizes", and thus
> > massively reduce the size of the result...
> > I would suspect the result will fit on a ZipDisk, never mind a CD, but
> > I'll not know for sure until I get it set up...
> > Are there any CVS experts out there?
>
> now we're getting somewhere
> trouble is - as the puzzle unfolds, what do you do about the situation where an
> intermediate release turns up
>
> say we have 1.1.1, 1.1.3, 1.1.4
> put them in cvs and all of a sudden 1.1.2 appears from some kindly soul
> can cvs/rcs/sccs (you choose) handle this?
That's why we have tags. After checking in 2.1.129, you say
cvs tag linus-2-1-129
After that you can say
cvs co linus-2-1-129
to check out 2.1.129.
Greetings,
Geert
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Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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