Re: Last commit to HEAD

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:17 PM, David Wolfskill <david_at_catwhisker.org>wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 09:48:20PM -0400, Outback Dingo wrote:
> > Okay I must be loosing it since the change over to svn, and loosing cvsup
> >
> > where can i find the last commit to HEAD ?
>
> A couple of Web-oriented sources of information:
>
> * <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/current/svn-src-head.html>, which (as of
>   this writing) refers to "Apr 15 Andrey V. Elsukov   svn commit:
>   r249528 - head/sys/netinet6".
>
> * <http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/>, which (again, as of this
>   writing) mentions "Directory revision:        249528 (of 249529)".
>
> > and is it correct to use
> >
> > svn co http://svn.freebsd.org/base/head/ for 10.0-CURRENT srcs
>
> Mostly, though we now have some official mirrors, as well; you might want
> to consider using one of those.  And per
> <
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/committers-guide/article.html#subversion-primer
> >,
> https is recommended for "anonymous checkout", e.g.:
> "svn co https://svn0.us-west.FreeBSD.org/base/head /usr/src"
>
> > making the last commit rev  249529
>
> As of this writing, that was the last commit to the src repository.
> However, that commit was to the "user" part of the repo, not to head.
> (Ref. <http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/>.)
>
> > and as for 9.x i thought releng was what brought updates to the 9 tree
>
> releng/* is equivalent to the old RELENG_* CVS branches -- that is,
> RELEASE_* + patches/commits to address security advisories.
>
> This is *not* what you want for "new features" (such as support for a
> device that wasn't supported in RELEASE).
>
> > so why stable look like theres more current work, or is that going to
> > become
> > the life of 9.2 ....
>
> That's exactly the same as it was under CVS: "stable/*" is a development
> branch, and that *does* get "new features" (ideally, all MFCed from
> head), and (as of this writing) stable/9 is where code is committed that
> will eventually become release/9.2.0, then releng/9.2.
>
> > trying to refresh my memory here!
>
> I hope that helps a bit.
>
> Peace,
> david
>

Yupp Thanks for the refresher, im good now!


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