Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 22:04:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin@FreeBSD.org> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r186677 - head/usr.sbin/mergemaster Message-ID: <20090101215930.P70386@ury.york.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <200901011055.n01AtQaN052763@svn.freebsd.org> References: <200901011055.n01AtQaN052763@svn.freebsd.org>
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On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, Doug Barton wrote: > Given that this is a situation that comes up very infrequently (usually > only for a major version upgrade) This is no longer true: a side effect of having SVN exported to CVS is that every time a branch is forked, the CVS ID is bumped, and as a result is different between 7.0 and 7.1 even if the file itself isn't changed. As long as this is handled with -U, however, I'm not sure I see the need for special handling. I'd love to see the -U otion as default, and a pre-populated mtree database for it shipped with the releases, however. This would go a long way towards making upgrading more user-friendly. Gavin
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