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Date:      Sun, 1 Nov 2009 16:41:06 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
Cc:        svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-8@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r198745 - in stable/8: etc sys sys/amd64/include/xen sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris sys/contrib/dev/acpica sys/contrib/pf sys/dev/syscons sys/dev/xen/xenpci sys/kern sys/sys usr.sbin/jail
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0911011640100.37561@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <20091101154335.GJ1293@hoeg.nl>
References:  <200911011030.nA1AUVsN019962@svn.freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0911011530090.2930@fledge.watson.org> <20091101154335.GJ1293@hoeg.nl>

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On Sun, 1 Nov 2009, Ed Schouten wrote:

> * Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>> Is there some relationship between the various changesets merged together 
>> here?  One nice thing about grouping merged changesets in some way is that 
>> it makes backing them out more sensible if there's a problem (since you 
>> just revert the whole changeset, etc).
>
> Well, it initially happened like this, because I wanted to merge back 
> multiple changes back to releng/8 with re@'s approval. re@ required diff 
> files to include commit messages and proper mergeinfo.
>
> Because I can't think of a way to prepare a larger set of patches that 
> include proper mergeinfo without constantly reverting back and forth or 
> keeping track of multiple 1.2 GB checkouts, I eventually just decided to 
> create a bigger patch, so it was more an exception than a routine.
>
> Reverting patches shouldn't be a problem, because I could always just svn 
> merge -c -123456 to revert individual commits.

I had more in mind that instructions to locally roll back particular 
changesets to users will have weird side effects that they didn't have before.

Robert



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