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Date:      Wed, 30 Dec 2020 09:09:13 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org>, Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>, "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@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:  <20201230090913.GA90119@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <15826.1609318943@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <202012291441.0BTEf1X9009764@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <202012300018.0BU0I7gn079533@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <CACNAnaF0pMGzZRsHueR_o-xwD_CjX6yyHqO-SNGTPy3tsinLAg@mail.gmail.com> <20201230022128.GE1206@FreeBSD.org> <CANCZdfoE5KuWPHNmqK1=W0TW6LE8sxwBV51SndoDYwE3zXyFOw@mail.gmail.com> <15826.1609318943@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 09:02:23AM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> --------
> Warner Losh writes:
> 
> > Deleting all the $FreeBSD$ in on go is massively unwise (or as the British
> > might say, "a very brave plan"). It will screw up MFCs on an epic scale for
> > years for no real benefit to pay for that extra developer time. It itself
> > can't be MFCd. It's a terrible idea. We should not be deleting them, except
> > judiciously for things that cannot be MFCd. With the subversion exporter,
> > they will live on in stable/12.
> 
> Does that imply that we should start to remove them once stable/12 is safely
> EOL'ed in a few years ?

Shouldn't we keep them for the future, when we switch to a saner VCS which
supports them?

What about mergemaster -F, on a related note?

./danfe



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