Think I found a bunch of the makehistory problem

Jeffrey M. Vinocur jeff at litech.org
Tue Mar 12 17:41:05 UTC 2002


On 12 Mar 2002, Alex Kiernan wrote:

> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:
>
> > Jeffrey M Vinocur <jeff at litech.org> writes:
> >
> > > P.S.  Since when does makehistory take care of generating
> > > history.{dir,index,hash}?
> >
> > Hm, I thought makedbz did that too, but maybe the history API moved things
> > around?
>
> It did, it was one of those where it was real hard to support the
> previous behaviour and make it do the right thing for the future.

It's ok, I was just surprised.

It's kinda nice actually (since I would always forget to run makedbz
anyway).

By the way, the documentation for makehistory -s is quite confusing as to
what units are being used.

-- 
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org



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