What's up with the SVN repository?

[Mel Flynn]

On Saturday 08 August 2009 09:44:43 Ed Schouten wrote:
> * Thomas Backman <serenity at exscape.org> wrote:
> > No commits at all in the last few days, and given "Please just bear
> > with it until commits are restored" (from Attilio Rao)... How are
> > things? Any status updates anywhere? I looked through the list of
> > mailing lists, but didn't find a fitting one with a topic covering
> > this.
>
> The FreeBSD Project has been discontinued. Nothing to see here! ;-)
>
> Ken Smith created the stable/8 branch, in preparation for 8.0-RELEASE.
> This is the first time we're creating a new major branch since our
> migration to SVN, so it turns out there are some problems with the SVN
> -> CVS exporter catching up. After this issues have been resolved, the
> release procedure should continue as expected.

So for people using svn, should we now start tracking stable/8 or is HEAD safe 
for the time being?

Also, what's the equivalent of find /usr/src -type d -name CVS -exec echo 
TRELENG_8 \>{}/Tag \; or do we have to svn diff for local patches, rm -rf, 
checkout stable/8 and re-apply diffs?
-- 
Mel