From owner-svn-src-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 1 16:41:07 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ACC31065694; Sun, 1 Nov 2009 16:41:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FB888FC19; Sun, 1 Nov 2009 16:41:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [65.122.17.41]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0965546B39; Sun, 1 Nov 2009 11:41:07 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 16:41:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Ed Schouten In-Reply-To: <20091101154335.GJ1293@hoeg.nl> Message-ID: References: <200911011030.nA1AUVsN019962@svn.freebsd.org> <20091101154335.GJ1293@hoeg.nl> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-8@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r198745 - in stable/8: etc sys sys/amd64/include/xen sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris sys/contrib/dev/acpica sys/contrib/pf sys/dev/syscons sys/dev/xen/xenpci sys/kern sys/sys usr.sbin/jail X-BeenThere: svn-src-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for all the -stable branches of the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:41:07 -0000 On Sun, 1 Nov 2009, Ed Schouten wrote: > * Robert Watson wrote: >> Is there some relationship between the various changesets merged together >> here? One nice thing about grouping merged changesets in some way is that >> it makes backing them out more sensible if there's a problem (since you >> just revert the whole changeset, etc). > > Well, it initially happened like this, because I wanted to merge back > multiple changes back to releng/8 with re@'s approval. re@ required diff > files to include commit messages and proper mergeinfo. > > Because I can't think of a way to prepare a larger set of patches that > include proper mergeinfo without constantly reverting back and forth or > keeping track of multiple 1.2 GB checkouts, I eventually just decided to > create a bigger patch, so it was more an exception than a routine. > > Reverting patches shouldn't be a problem, because I could always just svn > merge -c -123456 to revert individual commits. I had more in mind that instructions to locally roll back particular changesets to users will have weird side effects that they didn't have before. Robert