svn commit: r330972 - stable/11/share/misc

Bruce Evans brde at optusnet.com.au
Fri Mar 16 07:25:30 UTC 2018


On Thu, 15 Mar 2018, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:

>> On 15/03/2018 10:30, Eitan Adler wrote:
>>> ...
>>> Log:
>>>   MFC r303063,r311852,r311930,r317040,r320506,r321301,r325162,r326759,r329004,:
>> I have never seen things like these MFC-ed before...
>> Should we be really doing them?
>
> Yes, imho.  And the reasons may seem odd to sum, but here is my spin on this:
> ...
> Maybe we should even add to the end of the commiters "these are the
> things you should do as a new committer" the merging of your info
> into to all supported/active releases.  Which is a good opportunity
> for teaching how to do svn sparse checkouts as you really do not
> want to pull all of stable/10 out just to commit to 1 file.

Actually, it is necessary to check out everything to MFC to 1 file.
Sparse checkouts only work for committing to head.  They break mergeinfo
for MFCs.  Or so I was told when I MFCed with a sparse checkout.  This is
my excuse for not MFC'ing anything.

Bruce


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