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Date:      Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:09:55 -0500
From:      Larry Baird <lab@gta.com>
To:        Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Most files in subversion stable/8/sys touched by bms
Message-ID:  <20091120160955.GA47889@gta.com>
In-Reply-To: <4B06BC3C.5040804@andric.com>
References:  <20091120144428.GA27644@gta.com> <4B06BC3C.5040804@andric.com>

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On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 04:56:44PM +0100, Dimitry Andric wrote:
> On 2009-11-20 15:44, Larry Baird wrote:
> > I use the following to get a feel of what is changing in FreeBSD 8 kernel.
> >     http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/stable/8/sys/?sortby=date
> > 
> > Normally only a few directories show modification.  Today, almost
> > every directory show a modification by bms:
> >     MFC r199522..199528: Pullup IPv6 mcast SSM KPI fixes from HEAD, including fix .
> > 
> > So I decided to see what the changes are.  Every file I have so far checked
> > shows no changes.  
> >     http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/stable/8/sys/sys/cons.h?r1=196045&r2=199578&sortby=date
> > 
> > Any idea why so many files claim to have been touched?
> 
> Usually this is mergeinfo propagated by Subversion.  The files' contents
> did not change, but its metadata (Subversion properties) did.

I also noticed that if you check out the base/stable/8/sys tree that
most of the $FreeBSD$ id strings are also modified.
    $FreeBSD: stable/8/sys/sys/socket.h 199578 2009-11-20 12:30:40Z bms

Looking at the subversion tree, jhb is tring to cleanup mergeinfo.  
Hopefully he will have luck. (-:

Larry

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