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Subject: Re: svn commit: r474920 - head/mail/thunderbird/files
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Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org> writes:

> Author: jbeich
> Date: Wed Jul 18 23:44:21 2018
> New Revision: 474920
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/474920
>
> Log:
>   mail/thunderbird: drop patches in preparation for update
>   
>   $ svn commit
>   Sending        Mk/Uses/gecko.mk
>   Sending        mail/thunderbird/Makefile
>   Sending        mail/thunderbird/distinfo
>   Sending        mail/thunderbird/files/patch-addon-search
>   Replacing      mail/thunderbird/files/patch-bug1021761
>   Adding         mail/thunderbird/files/patch-bug1144632
>   Deleting       mail/thunderbird/files/patch-bug1186967
>   [...]
>   Transmitting file data ..........done
>   Committing transaction...
>   svn: E165001: Commit failed (details follow):
>   svn: E165001: Commit blocked by pre-commit hook (exit code 1) with output:
>   Do not replace a file. This can lose history. Path: "/head/mail/thunderbird/files/patch-bug702179"
>   == Additional errors may compound and may not be accurate ==
>   Do not replace a file. This can lose history. Path: "/head/mail/thunderbird/files/patch-bug1021761"
>   Do not replace a file. This can lose history. Path: "/head/mail/thunderbird/files/patch-bug1288587"
>   Do not replace a file. This can lose history. Path: "/head/mail/thunderbird/files/patch-bug847568"
>   Do not replace a file. This can lose history. Path: "/head/mail/thunderbird/files/patch-env-api-keys"
>   [...]

In order to preserve file history portmgr@ encourages to use repocopy.
This commit tried to switch to granular history only to be blocked by
pre-commit hook requesting to squash into a blob. It may have been
possible to losslessly merge thunderbird/files and firefox-esr/files
histories but this isn't documented in Committer's Guide and is likely
to result in mergeinfo contamination on /head branch.

Anyway, Subversion metadata is hard. I should probably stop venturing
out of my Git workflow as it takes too much time to resolve.