Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:01:29 +0100 From: Erwin Lansing <erwin@FreeBSD.org> To: Andrey Chernov <ache@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com>, ports-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r307612 - in head/misc/astrolog: . files Message-ID: <20121121120128.GC4474@droso.net> In-Reply-To: <50ACBE7D.70203@freebsd.org> References: <201211210949.qAL9nl4a018306@svn.freebsd.org> <CADLo83-Yf0vt73kynPPJPCEcLex11g=SzJshbqmyr=bmHWaKUA@mail.gmail.com> <50ACB0A7.1030108@freebsd.org> <CADLo839jgAP_V3F4x%2BwSaFk65rLdvS-pPhaM7krP9FWHn5cFfA@mail.gmail.com> <50ACBE7D.70203@freebsd.org>
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On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 03:43:57PM +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote: > On 21.11.2012 15:10, Chris Rees wrote: > > Yes, but the new naming convention is something which should be decided > by portmgr@ to keep all things in line. F.e. will it be '-' or '_' or > '=' or some combination of them etc? It is unknown to me at this moment, > so I prefer to stay the old one I see. "Please only use characters [-+._a-zA-Z0-9] for naming your patches. Do not use any other characters besides them. Do not name your patches like patch-aa or patch-ab etc, always mention the path and file name in patch names." http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/slow-patch.html Imporovements to the handbook are of course always welcome. > > > After the feature freeze I'll have a look at doing a mass rename. > > Ok. > Back in the cvs days, this was never done as it ment losing history and policy was therefore to only apply the, then new, naming convention to new files only. Now that we've moved to subversion, so give portmgr a prod after the release to see if a mass file renaming would be a good idea now. Erwin -- Erwin Lansing http://droso.dk erwin@FreeBSD.org http:// www.FreeBSD.org
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