fun with CVS branching

[Toshio Kuratomi]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Two things from this mass branching that showed up:
> 
> 1) Something weird happened, and all the modules entries pw*-z
> got deleted from the modules file halfway through. We get to try
> and put them back. Um, yay?
> 
> 2) The modules file, *as it stands now*, is nearly 3MB checked out,
> and nearly *1.2GB* under RCS. That can't be good.
> 
> The reason for this is to allow for the creation of pseudo-modules
> for each 'branch', i.e., so 'cvs co FC-5' generates a:
> 
> FC-5/bash
> FC-5/automake
> FC-5/autoconf
> ...
> 
> tree, where the FC-5/<package> directory is the 'normal' <package>/FC-5
> dir.
> 
> (Note that the 'devel' meta-branch is done in an Entirely Different
> manner.)
> 
> So, the question would be... is this worth it? Do we want to keep
> supporting this?
> 
I'd say no but I've never used this feature at all.

-Toshio

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