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Date:      Mon, 29 Jun 2020 17:21:13 -0500
From:      Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        =?UTF-8?Q?Stefan_E=c3=9fer?= <se@freebsd.org>, Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Eric van Gyzen <eric@vangyzen.net>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r362681 - in head: contrib/bc contrib/bc/gen contrib/bc/include contrib/bc/locales contrib/bc/manuals contrib/bc/src contrib/bc/src/bc contrib/bc/src/dc contrib/bc/src/history contrib/b...
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On 29/06/2020 16:11, Stefan Eßer wrote:
> Am 29.06.20 um 20:09 schrieb Ed Maste:
>> On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 at 11:27, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> I suspect just doing the 'merge --record-only' is the simplest method
>>> assuming Git handles it ok.  I suspect since Git ignores mergeinfo this
>>> is fine, but it would be good for Ed to confirm.  You can always restore
>>> the tests in the future in contrib/bc when you want to add them.
>> I think a --record-only merge is the best approach; in any case we
>> have a number of these in the tree already and Git will have to deal
>> with them.
> Thank you for this advice.
>
> There is a new version, which differs only in the man-pages. These
> used to mention optional features (of which only NLS support is
> actually optional in the version built on FreeBSD, all other are
> always compiled in, and I had mentioned to the author that this
> might irritate FreeBSD users).

FWIW, since it was rewritten it would have been actually nice to have it 
in modern C++.


> I have suggested to the author to add SPDX BSD-2-Clause tags, which
> would change a large fraction of the currently committed files.

We only use the SPDX tags for internal software. For stuff from contrib 
it is not necessary.


>
> Is it required to perform the --record-only merge, then?
Since you are going to bring it through the vendor area you should keep 
the merge information yes.
> Or would it be OK to import the new release into the vendor branch
> and then svn copy that version completely (including the tests and
> other files that I had omitted in the initial import) to contrib?
>
> I expect the svn copy without prior svn merge --record-only to
> result in the same repository state after the conversion to Git,
> but I do not really know ...

It is likely git won't care.

cheers,

Pedro.




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