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Date:      Wed, 30 Dec 2020 04:05:52 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
To:        Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@freebsd.org>, Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: 70e64ba44941 - main - release.sh: Update GITROOT URL
Message-ID:  <202012301205.0BUC5qV1081965@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <CACNAnaF0pMGzZRsHueR_o-xwD_CjX6yyHqO-SNGTPy3tsinLAg@mail.gmail.com>

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> On Tue, Dec 29, 2020, 18:18 Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > > The branch main has been updated by gjb:
> > >
> > > URL:
> > https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=70e64ba4494190e64ab8faa04d744182d420c275
> > >
> > > commit 70e64ba4494190e64ab8faa04d744182d420c275
> > > Author:     Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>
> > > AuthorDate: 2020-12-29 14:34:05 +0000
> > > Commit:     Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>
> > > CommitDate: 2020-12-29 14:40:28 +0000
> > >
> > >     release.sh: Update GITROOT URL
> > >
> > >     Hard-code the GITROOT for the ports tree to use cgit-beta
> > >     until the ports repository is converted.
> > >
> > >     While here, remove $FreeBSD$ RCS IDs.
> >
> > So how do I know what version of some file I am looking at
> > once it has been dis-associated from a git clone?
> >
> > Is there some new mechanism that can give me the cadence of
> > say, /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf once its FreBSD ID is riped out?
> >
> > Also if $FreeBSD$ needs to be removed, can we please just do
> > it in one massive tree wide commit rather than have this
> > random piece wise needless noise in 1000's of commits?
> 
> 
> 
> I don't see any particularly compelling reason to strip these tags,
> personally. I stripped them from caroot because we embedded them in
> generated files and it creates a lot of noise on updatecerts that I do not
> need/want, while providing no value to justify the noise for a purely
> generated file.

What you call noise I call tracability to origin, and we are loosing
that it seems, and IMHO, that is a really bad day to see. 

-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org



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