From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 10 08:59:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA24067 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 08:59:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA24061 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 08:59:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@austin.polstra.com) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA02491; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 08:58:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp) Message-Id: <199808101558.IAA02491@austin.polstra.com> To: andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de Subject: Re: Why did these files change on -STABLE? In-Reply-To: <199808081511.RAA26771@internal> References: <199808081511.RAA26771@internal> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 08:58:19 -0700 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <199808081511.RAA26771@internal>, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > After applying src-2.2.0824.gz I found that, among others, the > following files were intoduced into -STABLE: > > > DM sys/alpha > > DM sys/alpha/include > > FM sys/alpha/include/console.h ... > Do they really belong there? I didn't find anything in the CVS messages > confirming this, e.g.: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/alpha/include/console.h > > 1.39 Thu Aug 6 9:15:52 1998 UTC by dfr > CVS Tags: HEAD > Diffs to 1.38 > > Port syscons to the alpha. The driver itself has moved to sys/isa as it will > hopefully become a portable driver usable by all architectures. The api > support files have had to be copied to sys/alpha/include since userland > programs expect to find them in . > > All the revision history of the i386 syscons has been retained by a > repository copy. No, they do not belong there. Whoever did the repository copy didn't do it correctly. This is an example of why committers are strictly forbidden from doing repository copies (or anything else directly in the repository) themselves. The only people allowed to do repository copies are: peter@freebsd.org jdp@freebsd.org asami@freebsd.org (for ports) -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message