stable branch notes

[Kyle Evans]

On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 12:26 PM Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> 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

Sure, sounds reasonable, thanks! IMO this is probably way too
infrequent to bother with adding in if it's not already there,
especially if the svn commit will contain the hash already.