stable branch notes

[Warner Losh]

On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 11:12 AM Kyle Evans <kevans at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> So Warner's got a git2svn exporter that will keep svn up-to-date, but
> will it backfill stable/12 notes (so to speak, if it's even possible)
> to indicate the svn revision that a git commit ended up with?
>

No. It includes the hash so you can find the hash, but it doesn't try to
backfill notes.


> I'm staring at the EN template and trying to figure out if I'll be
> able to use the cgit interface to fill it out or if I'd need to use
> svnweb for this going forward, assuming that SA/EN will continue to
> refer to svn commits to match the release process for those branches.
>

I think we're going to have to reference both, alas, and that the 'both'
might be a bit of a manual process. If it's too much of a hassle, we could
have a post-post process that does the backfill, but that seemed a bridge
too far in compatibility.

Warner