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Date:      Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:13:54 +0100
From:      Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Cc:        Eitan Adler <eitanadlerlist@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: keeping track of local modifications
Message-ID:  <200811300013.54902.max@love2party.net>
In-Reply-To: <4931CB02.9070904@gmail.com>
References:  <4931CB02.9070904@gmail.com>

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On Sunday 30 November 2008 00:06:42 Eitan Adler wrote:
> I'm starting to work on local modifications to freeBSD and I was
> thinking of how to keep track of my local modifications.
> My first thought was to make a svn repo and and keep the freeBSD source
> as a "vendor branch".  Has anyone else done this? What else do you do to
> keep track of local modifications?
> Note: I'm tracking -STABLE; not -CURRENT.

Use svk.  There is information about how to set that up on the wiki: 
http://wiki.freebsd.org/SubversionPrimer

> As an aside can anyone point me to a relatively easy bug/feature that I
> can work on as a beginner C coder?

Check http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/

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