From owner-svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 1 22:04:44 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D1761065672; Thu, 1 Jan 2009 22:04:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gavin@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail-gw0.york.ac.uk (mail-gw0.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.245]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BDFC8FC16; Thu, 1 Jan 2009 22:04:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gavin@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail-gw6.york.ac.uk (mail-gw6.york.ac.uk [144.32.129.26]) by mail-gw0.york.ac.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id n01M4db6008085; Thu, 1 Jan 2009 22:04:39 GMT Received: from ury.york.ac.uk ([144.32.108.81]) by mail-gw6.york.ac.uk with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1LIVeh-0000fO-SM; Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:04:39 +0000 Received: from ury.york.ac.uk (localhost.york.ac.uk [127.0.0.1]) by ury.york.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n01M4dk4005371; Thu, 1 Jan 2009 22:04:39 GMT (envelope-from gavin@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (gavin@localhost) by ury.york.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id n01M4cV1005368; Thu, 1 Jan 2009 22:04:39 GMT (envelope-from gavin@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: ury.york.ac.uk: gavin owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 22:04:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Gavin Atkinson X-X-Sender: gavin@ury.york.ac.uk To: Doug Barton In-Reply-To: <200901011055.n01AtQaN052763@svn.freebsd.org> Message-ID: <20090101215930.P70386@ury.york.ac.uk> References: <200901011055.n01AtQaN052763@svn.freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-York-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-York-MailScanner-From: gavin@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 X-BeenThere: svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the src tree for head/-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:04:45 -0000 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