svn commit: r345138 - head/share/man/man9

[Ravi Pokala]

I think maybe there was also a limitation on the (repo-replication-over-email?) mechanism that we used to use? That rings a very faint bell for me for some reason, even though I'm pretty sure it was dead long before I got my bit.

-Ravi (rpokala@)

-----Original Message-----
From: <owner-src-committers at freebsd.org> on behalf of Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org>
Date: 2019-03-14, Thursday at 12:21
To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes at freebsd.org>
Cc: src-committers <src-committers at freebsd.org>, <svn-src-all at freebsd.org>, <svn-src-head at freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: svn commit: r345138 - head/share/man/man9

On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 at 14:55, Rodney W. Grimes
<freebsd at gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
>
> [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ]
> > Author: emaste
> > Date: Thu Mar 14 17:09:07 2019
> > New Revision: 345138
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/345138
> >
> > Log:
> >   firmware(9): remove uuencoded example
> >
> >   We can (should) just commit the binary files to the source tree.
>
> This change could use wider discussion.

If you or others have a reason to prefer having uuencoded files in the
src tree I'll happily revert. I was aware only of CVS limitations as a
reason for uuencoding.

We have many binary files in the tree already (e.g. GIF PNG and JPEG
images, ELF and PE32 binaries, Berkeley DB files, and various
compressed formats). I count 430 uuencoded files in the tree, with 328
of those coming from libarchive and 64 from sys/*/dev/