Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 21:14:30 +0100 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> To: "Arno J. Klaassen" <arno@heho.snv.jussieu.fr> Cc: re@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available... Message-ID: <CADLo83-pGd%2BrboVN3iFHDuEzd4HwuvEW%2B_ZuiGdDDP7yHmtfMw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <wpy5kzozlr.fsf@heho.snv.jussieu.fr> 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> <wpy5kzozlr.fsf@heho.snv.jussieu.fr>
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On 28/08/2012, Arno J. Klaassen <arno@heho.snv.jussieu.fr> wrote: > Jim Pingle <lists@pingle.org> 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
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