Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 19:15:55 -0500 From: jT <toyj@union.edu> To: "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, perryh@pluto.rain.com Subject: Re: keeping track of local modifications Message-ID: <9f8af95f0812021615s1b06f10bl3a317da64b7263e8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <87ej0q23qt.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <4931CB02.9070904@gmail.com> <4932E8CF.9040501@freebsd.org> <49337f04.p8QqvfzTga07ypa6%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <200812010830.17259.max@love2party.net> <gFpinjQW6hEatbsT%2BXzE0kSsZf0@kjaK%2B/sQ5DW5981v71UogZJPf/0> <874p1nlslc.fsf@kobe.laptop> <8S1yocfZ0YutMO/GCIC1bN8RXQ0@kjaK%2B/sQ5DW5981v71UogZJPf/0> <4934c2c9./%2BHbbGwhphjtaXAT%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <87ej0q23qt.fsf@kobe.laptop>
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On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:08:25 -0800, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: >>>> Git and Mercurial cannot import Subversion $FreeBSD$ lines so far, >>>> and you may end up submitting patches that include unexpanded forms >>>> of the "$FreeBSD: xxxx $" text. These will fail to apply if they >>>> same patch touches nearby lines. >>> >>> Ahm, yes. "sed -e's|$FreeBSD: [^$]* \$|$FreeBSD$|g'" should help >>> in this case. > > You are right, of course. > > The fact that `$FreeBSD$' is extracted in unexpanded form by the current > svn->hg converter is a limitation of the Python bindings of Subversion. > They do not support expansion of the svn:keywords property of checked > out files. > good evening Giorgos and Eygene (and list), So am i to understand that there is no automatic way to use Hg or Git? -- and as Eygene said in order to use them in such a manner special patching will be required? I too am looking to set something else up other than my SVN repository because i personally prefer Hg and Git to SVN. Thank you to all who have contributed to this conversation it has been extremely informative for me and i'm sure several others. I hope everyone is looking forward to the holidays Respectfully, -- /jT http://git.zen-sources.org/?p=kernel/zenmm.git;a=summary
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