Re: svn MFC to stable/8

On Thursday, October 04, 2012 6:06:56 pm Rick Macklem wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> Thanks yet again John. I used svn1.7 and it didn't have all the dirs.
> It only listed directory properties for sys and sys/fs, 
> which I hope was ok, since I committed it.

Yep.

-- 
John Baldwin