From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 28 20:14:33 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F6E9106566B; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:14:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bk0-f54.google.com (mail-bk0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 728BD8FC26; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:14:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkcje9 with SMTP id je9so2765085bkc.13 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:14:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=m8cRX5gctoUutzY3+1eLTZ5StbeAtI/A4lGhiHfv9cA=; b=h5wkkLMpwEQLlpSdIuvcXN5LJ0oVUTP0Y3PD5RR0zB/U9mY9P41qcAk/mPKlHSmnBN lmIfO0SGvfQYqzA8YpR75j+3dyryPT+5hAyZQpqmDVBObFRnodz+fLbS0Q0n6XV428/a OLeWIR/2x7Gb4Lkx4QJ+MQeBaPdVaHpjwUx1OLDpgDJib7/bTrEozkH/LSSJbfheSr2e sf3orB/CaZfNka81Wrm7Z+WF9w4g2Hrn0pyiXd/GalK5qMG5XS+hWrveXcAI2MXuiUu1 Q8eHWRAC/MBlzmjd4elqExfru+i7amHnaNthhBP4pMySK+rY/f+06KnwMb7dXIHo+zWg jxvg== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.8.84 with SMTP id g20mr5489040bkg.126.1346184871155; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:14:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.10.141 with HTTP; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:14:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <1345697446.84337.11.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> <20120823225855.U33776@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <1345729674.52121.4.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> <5036497F.7020501@icarz.com> <1345736581.27688.403.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <50384172.3090706@pingle.org> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 21:14:30 +0100 Message-ID: From: Chris Rees To: "Arno J. Klaassen" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: re@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available... X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:14:33 -0000 On 28/08/2012, Arno J. Klaassen wrote: > Jim Pingle writes: > >> On 8/23/2012 11:43 AM, Ian Lepore wrote: >>> On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 11:17 -0400, Ken Menzel wrote: >>>> >>>> I found two good primers: >>>> http://mebsd.com/configure-freebsd-servers/update-freebsd-source-tree-using-subversion-svn.html >>>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/committers-guide/article.html#SUBVERSION-PRIMER >>>> >>>> The second primer in the committer handbook seems to indicate that it >>>> is difficult to run an SVN mirror. This appears to me to be the >>>> biggest drawback. I have been using CVS and perforce for years, but >>>> subversion is new to me. >>> >>> It may be difficult to run an svn mirror that allows you to commit >>> locally and get those changes back to the project, but running a >>> read-only mirror is trivial. The script I run nightly from cron to sync >>> my local mirror is: >>> >>> #!/bin/sh >>> # >>> # svnsync to pull in changes from FreeBSD to my local mirror. >>> # >>> svnsync sync file:///local/vc/svn/base >>> >>> I can't remember how I initially created and populated the mirror, but >>> it's likely I grabbed a snapshot of the mirror at work and brought it >>> home on a thumb drive (just to avoid initial network DL time). >> >> I spent a little time today setting up an SVN mirror after reading this >> thread and wrote up a how-to for those looking to do the same. >> >> http://www.pingle.org/2012/08/24/freebsd-svn-mirror >> >> Comments/Flames/Corrections welcome... > > thanx; works out of the box for me (using the "svnserve_enable" path). > > That said : I glanced at a diff of a stable/8 checkout both from > /home/ncvs repo and new /home/freebsd-svn one, and saw a (maybe well-known > ..) > 'feature' : > > diff ./src/contrib/amd/include/am_defs.h > /raid1/bsd/8/src/contrib/amd/include/am_defs.h > > 42c42 > < * $FreeBSD: stable/8/contrib/amd/include/am_defs.h 174299 2007-12-05 > 16:03:52Z obrien $ > --- >> * $FreeBSD: src/contrib/amd/include/am_defs.h,v 1.15.2.1 2009/08/03 >> 08:13:06 kensmith Exp $ > > > I wondered why the date (and commiter ...) in the expansion were > different (from the svn log ): > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > r196045 | kensmith | 2009-08-03 10:13:06 +0200 (Mon, 03 Aug 2009) | 4 > lines > > Copy head to stable/8 as part of 8.0 Release cycle. > > Approved by: re (Implicit) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > r174299 | obrien | 2007-12-05 17:03:52 +0100 (Wed, 05 Dec 2007) | 3 > lines > > > So the 'Copy head' chain does not update the $FreeBSD tag, whereas the > consequent svn to cvs chain does. That's because CVS does not consider tagging/branching a commit, whereas Subversion does. Chris