Re: pgsql-server/src backend/bootstrap/Tag: backen ...

Tom Lane wrote:
> Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> writes:
> >> Well, that's a fair argument, but why don't you get Marc to set up
> >> nightly snapshots for the WIN32_DEV branch?  That only costs cycles
> >> in the short term.  Polluting CVS with updates to derived files will
> >> cost us CVS storage forever.
>
> > Um, why not just have someone with local CVSROOT access just rm -f the
> > ,v file when the WIN32_DEV branch ceases to be useful?
>
> If we do that, we will lose the change histories from back when those
> files were kept in CVS (five or more years ago).  Perhaps this is not
> important, but I'm hesitant to do it.

Right.  I assume branches are kept in the same file as HEAD.

I have decided not to regularly update the derived files in WIN32_DEV
--- I will just keep the files in their place, and have configure
'touch' them to make them more recent when configure is run ---  we are
just trying to get the backend to start at this point.

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