Re: cvs tag renaming after repo copy

John E Hein <jhein@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote at 14:58 +0100 on Feb 28, 2008:
> "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > John Polstra has made a script (Fixtags) for it which we use for the
> > FreeBSD repository. I don't think he has any problems with it being
> > distributed, but as it doesn't have a copyright statement i just want
> > to ask before I distribute it...
>
> Uh... I wrote a replacement for that in 2001 (~des/bin/fixtags.pl).
> I'm surprised you still use John's version, which is excruciatingly
> slow, since 1) it's a shell script, 2) it's a *recursive* shell script,
> 3) it runs rcs twice for every modified tag.
>
> My version was under 3-clause BSD; I just switched it to 2-clause.

Sounds nice. But for those of us aren't in the club and don't have a
freefall account (or wherever home dirs reside these days) ... ?

http://people.freebsd.org/~des/software/fixtags

Unfortunately, Apache is set up in such a manner that I can't set the
correct mime type (if I name it fixtags.pl, it thinks it's a CGI script
and gives you a 403...)

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@xxxxxx
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