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Date:      Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:19:20 +0200
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-stable@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-stable-7@FreeBSD.org, Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>, Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r195485 - in stable/7/sys: . contrib/pf kern
Message-ID:  <86ws6gu6o7.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20090710013243.68775e75@dev.lan.Awfulhak.org> (Brian Somers's message of "Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:32:43 -0700")
References:  <200907090912.n699CGx0077581@svn.freebsd.org> <20090709103126.02bf7206@Awfulhak.org> <200907092235.18828.max@love2party.net> <20090710013243.68775e75@dev.lan.Awfulhak.org>

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Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> However, the bit that I don't understand about the original commit and
> its update of the contrib/pf mergeinfo is why it's updated at all
> [...]

Because svn needs to record that the revision you merged into sys was
also merged into sys/contrib/pf.

> Having said all that, svn's --depth switch allows partially sparse tree
> checkouts, and it's always possible to svn revert part of a merge
> before committing.

Don't.  You'd just make things worse.

Read http://wiki.freebsd.org/SubversionPrimer and its subpages.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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