*** HEADS UP *** FreeBSD.org commit mail list changes

[Ulrich Spoerlein]

On Tue, 07.10.2008 at 15:47:08 -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
> To complete the transition process, I'm turning off cvs-style commit
> messages for the "src" tree entirely.  The only commit messages will
> be svn-style.  The cvs-src list will no longer get commit messages
> (and will go away), and cvs-all will no longer get "src" commit
> messages.  (cvs-all will still get ports, projects, doc etc commits).
> 
> In a brave attempt to try and make this transparent to end users, I
> put on my peril sensitive sunglasses and copied the cvs-all and
> cvs-src list members over to svn-src-all.

Hi Peter,

thanks for doing  all the work. Since I'm sure the  FreeBSD project will
stick to Subversion for now (nobody said anything bad about it in public
anyways),  when can  we  expect to  get r/o  subversion  access for  the
masses?

I ask  this, because by turning  off CVS style commit  messages, you are
cutting as off  from testing -CURRENT changes on  -STABLE branches early
on.

For example,  there was a  commit recently,  which should fix  Flash9 on
FreeBSD. Thanks to the CVS style message I got the information that I
need file A rev 1.42 and file B rev 1.23. So I did the
cvs di -r 1.41 -r 1.42 | patch
dance and am  about to test Flash9 on FreeBSD. This  would not be easily
possible with the SVN  mails, as I would have to  extract the patch from
the mail body and cannot easily  'cvs diff' between the branches, as the
revision are not apparent.

I'm not asking you to turn CVS mails back on, just give us the
subversion mirrors we crave for! :)

Cheers,
Ulrich Spoerlein
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