From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 28 16:39:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from postoffice.aims.com.au (eth0.lnk.aims.com.au [203.31.73.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18A8A37B414 for ; Tue, 28 May 2002 16:39:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postoffice.aims.com.au (nts-ts1.aims.private [192.168.10.2]) by postoffice.aims.com.au with ESMTP id g4SNdDo82220 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 09:39:13 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from chris@aims.com.au) Received: from ntsts1 by aims.com.au with SMTP (MDaemon.v3.5.3.R) for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 09:38:45 +1000 Reply-To: From: "Chris Knight" To: Cc: Subject: RE: Maintaining Large Patchsets Against FreeBSD Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 09:38:43 +1000 Message-ID: <003a01c206a0$ce9ec1c0$020aa8c0@aims.private> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Importance: Normal X-Return-Path: chris@aims.com.au X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Howdy, > -----Original Message----- > From: Julian Elischer [mailto:julian@elischer.org] > Sent: Wednesday, 29 May 2002 6:26 > To: Chris Knight > Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Maintaining Large Patchsets Against FreeBSD > > > what is the patchset? > Mostly a heap of patches against the FreeBSD source, with some additional files. > It IS possible to set up a branch on your mirrored cvs repository using > some magic branch numbers. john Polstra (jpd@freebsd.org) would be the > person to ask if it can be done with a branch off a branch... > (a magic branch off the 4.x branch) > That's been suggested to me. I'm investigating it. Thanks. > > You may also be able to use P4 to import the 4.x branch into p4 > and keep branch off that.. (but I couldn't tell you details) > I've pulled down the binaries for P4. I now need to allocate some time to have a look at what it can do. Regards, Chris Knight Systems Administrator AIMS Independent Computer Professionals Tel: +61 3 6334 6664 Fax: +61 3 6331 7032 Mob: +61 419 528 795 Web: http://www.aims.com.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message