git: 70e64ba44941 - main - release.sh: Update GITROOT URL

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at freebsd.org
Wed Dec 30 09:09:13 UTC 2020


On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 09:02:23AM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> --------
> Warner Losh writes:
> 
> > Deleting all the $FreeBSD$ in on go is massively unwise (or as the British
> > might say, "a very brave plan"). It will screw up MFCs on an epic scale for
> > years for no real benefit to pay for that extra developer time. It itself
> > can't be MFCd. It's a terrible idea. We should not be deleting them, except
> > judiciously for things that cannot be MFCd. With the subversion exporter,
> > they will live on in stable/12.
> 
> Does that imply that we should start to remove them once stable/12 is safely
> EOL'ed in a few years ?

Shouldn't we keep them for the future, when we switch to a saner VCS which
supports them?

What about mergemaster -F, on a related note?

./danfe


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