Re: Please start a release branch

[Larry Jones]

Paul Edwards writes:
> 
> Ok, thanks for letting me know this, I had no way of knowing
> that the changes were innocuous as far as data loss is concerned.

For what it's worth, in the years that I've been using CVS, I only
remember two bugs that could cause loss of data -- the -t/-f wrappers
bug (which is why -t/-f wrappers were disabled) and the tag locking bug
(which was quickly worked around and eventually fixed).

> BTW, on the subject of file sizes, I compiled cvs 1.10 and
> 1.11.x at the same time, about 3 months ago.  I just used the
> default options on both.  700k for cvs 1.10 vs 2.3 meg for
> cvs 1.11.x.  I will run "size" on them tomorrow.

In that case, my guess is that 1.10 was built without client/server
support, probably because the older configure script couldn't find
something it needed whereas the newer configure script in 1.11 did find
everything.  If you still have the source directories, it might be
informative to compare the generated config.h files.

-Larry Jones

The game's called on account of sudden death. -- Calvin