Re: What's up with the SVN repository?

Mel Flynn wrote:
> On Saturday 08 August 2009 09:44:43 Ed Schouten wrote:
>> * Thomas Backman <serenity_at_exscape.org> wrote:
>>> No commits at all in the last few days, and given "Please just bear
>>> with it until commits are restored" (from Attilio Rao)... How are
>>> things? Any status updates anywhere? I looked through the list of
>>> mailing lists, but didn't find a fitting one with a topic covering
>>> this.
>> The FreeBSD Project has been discontinued. Nothing to see here! ;-)
>>
>> Ken Smith created the stable/8 branch, in preparation for 8.0-RELEASE.
>> This is the first time we're creating a new major branch since our
>> migration to SVN, so it turns out there are some problems with the SVN
>> -> CVS exporter catching up. After this issues have been resolved, the
>> release procedure should continue as expected.
> 
> So for people using svn, should we now start tracking stable/8 or is HEAD safe 
> for the time being?
> 
> Also, what's the equivalent of find /usr/src -type d -name CVS -exec echo 
> TRELENG_8 \>{}/Tag \; or do we have to svn diff for local patches, rm -rf, 
> checkout stable/8 and re-apply diffs?

No updates are being made on HEAD or stable/8 until the exporter
problem is fixed, so you don't have to worry about it.


hth,

Doug

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