keeping track of local modifications

[jT]

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:08:25 -0800, perryh at pluto.rain.com wrote:
>>>> Git and Mercurial cannot import Subversion $FreeBSD$ lines so far,
>>>> and you may end up submitting patches that include unexpanded forms
>>>> of the "$FreeBSD: xxxx $" text.  These will fail to apply if they
>>>> same patch touches nearby lines.
>>>
>>> Ahm, yes.  "sed -e's|$FreeBSD: [^$]* \$|$FreeBSD$|g'" should help
>>> in this case.
>
> You are right, of course.
>
> The fact that `$FreeBSD$' is extracted in unexpanded form by the current
> svn->hg converter is a limitation of the Python bindings of Subversion.
> They do not support expansion of the svn:keywords property of checked
> out files.
>

good evening Giorgos and Eygene (and list),

   So am i to understand that there is no automatic way to use Hg or
Git?  -- and as Eygene said in order to use them in such a manner
special patching will be required?  I too am looking to set something
else up other than my SVN repository because i personally prefer Hg
and Git to SVN.  Thank you to all who have contributed to this
conversation it has been extremely informative for me and i'm sure
several others.  I hope everyone is looking forward to the holidays


Respectfully,


-- 
/jT
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