Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 16:41:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> 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 Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0911011640100.37561@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20091101154335.GJ1293@hoeg.nl> References: <200911011030.nA1AUVsN019962@svn.freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0911011530090.2930@fledge.watson.org> <20091101154335.GJ1293@hoeg.nl>
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On Sun, 1 Nov 2009, Ed Schouten wrote: > * Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> 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
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