Re: svn MFC to stable/8

On Thursday, October 04, 2012 2:10:11 pm Rick Macklem wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Hopefully someone familiar with svn can help. When I try to MFC
> a kernel change to stable/8, it works, but I end up with tons of
> mergeinfo. (It looks like every directory under sys.)
> 
> Does this matter or is there a trick to avoid this?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help, rick
> ps: I seem to MFC fine to stable/9. I only see this for stable/8.

Someone screwed up the mergeinfo on stable/8/sys/dev due to svn 1.6
not working well with newer merges from 1.7.  The simplest solution
is to just update your client to svn 1.7.  Otherwise, you can commit
what you have now with 1.6.

-- 
John Baldwin