From owner-svn-src-stable@freebsd.org Fri Mar 16 07:25:30 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-stable@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6071DF56D83; Fri, 16 Mar 2018 07:25:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brde@optusnet.com.au) Received: from mail104.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail104.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.246]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6FDA70597; Fri, 16 Mar 2018 07:25:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brde@optusnet.com.au) Received: from [192.168.0.102] (c110-21-101-228.carlnfd1.nsw.optusnet.com.au [110.21.101.228]) by mail104.syd.optusnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D9EA442CB97; Fri, 16 Mar 2018 18:25:21 +1100 (AEDT) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 18:25:21 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-X-Sender: bde@besplex.bde.org To: rgrimes@freebsd.org cc: Andriy Gapon , Eitan Adler , src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r330972 - stable/11/share/misc In-Reply-To: <201803151533.w2FFXkS9093662@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> Message-ID: <20180316181800.B904@besplex.bde.org> References: <201803151533.w2FFXkS9093662@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Optus-CM-Score: 0 X-Optus-CM-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=cIaQihWN c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=PalzARQSbocsUSjMRkwAPg==:117 a=PalzARQSbocsUSjMRkwAPg==:17 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=SU4yJ5IgCYpL9l0rCCQA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 X-BeenThere: svn-src-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for all the -stable branches of the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 07:25:30 -0000 On Thu, 15 Mar 2018, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >> On 15/03/2018 10:30, Eitan Adler wrote: >>> ... >>> Log: >>> MFC r303063,r311852,r311930,r317040,r320506,r321301,r325162,r326759,r329004,: >> I have never seen things like these MFC-ed before... >> Should we be really doing them? > > Yes, imho. And the reasons may seem odd to sum, but here is my spin on this: > ... > Maybe we should even add to the end of the commiters "these are the > things you should do as a new committer" the merging of your info > into to all supported/active releases. Which is a good opportunity > for teaching how to do svn sparse checkouts as you really do not > want to pull all of stable/10 out just to commit to 1 file. Actually, it is necessary to check out everything to MFC to 1 file. Sparse checkouts only work for committing to head. They break mergeinfo for MFCs. Or so I was told when I MFCed with a sparse checkout. This is my excuse for not MFC'ing anything. Bruce