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Date:      Mon, 6 May 2013 16:33:31 -0400
From:      Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org>
To:        Dimitry Andric <dim@freebsd.org>
Cc:        mdf@freebsd.org, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, svn-src-stable-8@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r250249 - in stable/8/sys: . amd64/amd64 dev/sound i386/i386 kern
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References:  <201305041849.r44In5HK095619@svn.freebsd.org> <CAMBSHm93hTk-fWmeeKyX-e%2B9o4r1CMEyRJVA9D%2BTXd%2B38T1gTA@mail.gmail.com> <9AFDCE3E-8967-428A-89C2-4C9F9888E040@FreeBSD.org> <201305060959.52379.jhb@freebsd.org> <CAMBSHm-kKtAyMterKLSTvA39JO7Xzn4Cvo8QgkAyadhu=uOH-A@mail.gmail.com> <AB58AB2A-0C47-4E0F-ADF8-221625764884@freebsd.org>

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On 6 May 2013 15:02, Dimitry Andric <dim@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On May 6, 2013, at 20:27, mdf@FreeBSD.org wrote:
>> On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 6:59 AM, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> ...
>> Also, because of 1.7 merges adding more subdir mergeinfo, 1.6 merges now add
>> a lot more mergeinfo.  1.6 should really be avoided at this point for merges
>> if at all possible.
>>
>> Should I back this out, then, and re-do?  And why did this happen on stable/8, but not stable/9 for the same MFC?
>
> No, the spurious mergeinfo is not harmful, just a bit ugly.  It should be removed manually, by an svn expert (with a tiny bit of OCD... ;-).
>
> I think the stable/8 tree just contains more of this spurious merge info, simply because a lot of that tree was created when svn 1.6 was the current version.

It may be useful to block these commits using a pre-commit hook?


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Eitan Adler
Source, Ports, Doc committer
Bugmeister, Ports Security teams



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