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Date:      Thu, 1 Jun 2017 09:17:57 -0500
From:      Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya)" <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>, Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Ngie Cooper <ngie@FreeBSD.org>, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@freebsd.org>, "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r319295 - head/usr.bin/mkimg/tests
Message-ID:  <7d59fb7c-7ac6-c545-103d-6185a2ee5c93@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <7FC9CB7D-CF96-4ACA-A38C-E82836127BA4@gmail.com>
References:  <201705310801.v4V81CjO004032@repo.freebsd.org> <20170601050339.GA48398@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net> <7FC9CB7D-CF96-4ACA-A38C-E82836127BA4@gmail.com>

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On 06/01/17 01:06, Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya) wrote:
>> On May 31, 2017, at 10:03 PM, Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 08:01:12AM +0000, Ngie Cooper wrote:
>>> Author: ngie
>>> Date: Wed May 31 08:01:12 2017
>>> New Revision: 319295
>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/319295
>>>
>>> Log:
>>>   Update the usr.bin/mkimg golden test output files after ^/head@r319125
>>>
>>>   ^/head@r319125 changed the location of the backup pmbr, requiring the
>>>   output files to be regenerated, since they're binary disk dumps.
>>>
>>>   The output files were regenerated with "make rebase"--fixed in
>>>   ^/head@r319294.
>> These should not be stored uuencoded.  It serves no purpose other
>> than bloating the repo and causing spammy commit mails like this one
>> where we got a huge tail of garbage output.
> Hi Brooks,
> 	I’m not entirely sure why the files were uuencoded to be honest. I think that’s a good question for Marcel and some of the folks at Juniper, since they wrote the tool/tests.

for the record, it used to be a common practice. I think it's legacy 
from the CVS days.

Pedro.




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