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Subject: Re: Switching source from -current to 8-stable
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On 2009-08-23 12:16, Stefan Bethke wrote:
> If you've been using svn, run svn switch on your checkout:
> # cd /usr/src
> # svn switch svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/8

This will miss the $FreeBSD$ keywords, apparently; see the thread here:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-August/010423.html

As Doug Barton remarks there, it is probably safest to just checkout a
fresh copy, and apply any of your changes afterwards.