Re: ugliness in simple.el CVS log

[Nick Roberts]

 > >  > ??? How can CVS comments break or postpone the release?  They don't
 > >  > affect any file that goes into the tarball.
 > > 
 > > Not CVS comments but "cvs admin".  The CVS manual says:
 > > 
 > >   admin options
 > >   -------------
 > > 
 > >                               ...Some even make it impossible to use CVS 
 > > until
 > >   you undo the effect!
 > > 
 > > Anything that requires admin (cvsadmin) privileges is usually pretty 
 > > dangerous
 > > but, in any case, the onus is on the person making the change to convince
 > > others that it is safe ("I done this many times and never had a problem."),
 > > rather than on me to prove it isn't.
 > 
 > Please let's trust Miles that he knows his way with "cvs admin -m".
 > He's one of the few project admins for a very good reason.

It's not just one file as Thi suggests, and AFAIK logs and code are stored in
the same files.  The reason for having few project admins can only be that
it's easy to mess things up.  Since, as you say, the correct change doesn't
affect any file that goes into the tarball, why take any risk, however small?

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Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob