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Date:      Mon, 23 Jul 2018 10:10:56 -0700
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com>, rgrimes@freebsd.org
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-10@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r336448 - stable/10
Message-ID:  <e7dab835-5ad8-6833-b997-7ffefc9b3d77@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20180718190506.GA45754@server.rulingia.com>
References:  <201807180932.w6I9WheM066205@repo.freebsd.org> <201807181441.w6IEfNMJ007767@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> <20180718190506.GA45754@server.rulingia.com>

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On 7/18/18 12:05 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2018-Jul-18 07:41:23 -0700, "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
>>> Author: peterj
>>> Date: Wed Jul 18 09:32:43 2018
>>> New Revision: 336448
>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/336448
>>>
>>> Log:
>>>   Retrospectively document SVN branch point for stable-10 and its releases.
>>>   
>>>   This is a direct commit to stable/10 because the releases are taken
>>>   from the stable/10 branch.
>>>   
>>>   Approved by:	jhb (mentor)
>>>   Differential Revision:	D16263
>>
>> Actually I see no reason not to document these in the mainline
>> UPDATING file and making these MFC's.  As is now when looking
>> at UPDATING from head I can not easily find the branch point
>> for any of these releases and that is probably the most useful
>> time for this information.  If I already have a branch I probably
>> already know what its anchor point is.
> 
> I only put the releng/x.y branch points into the relevant stable/x/UPDATING
> because releng/x.y is branched off stable/x and I don't think it makes much
> sense to document those in head/UPDATING.  The stable/x branchpoints are in
> both head/UPDATING and stable/x/UPDATING.  Note that the stable/10 branch-
> point was already in head/UPDATING.

I agree with this.  We should document them in the source branch, but not
in grandparents like head where there is no single head commit that becomes
releng/X.Y.

> Do you have a quick way to find branch points?  The best I've found is
> "svn log -r 1:HEAD --limit 1 --stop-on-copy" within a branch and that
> is quite resource intensive on the SVN server.

Finding a file that doesn't change often like MAINTAINERS and only doing the
log against that shouldn't be as bad.

-- 
John Baldwin



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