Re: where to upgrade 12-stable now, svn still, or git?

[Mark Millard via freebsd-stable]

On 2021-Feb-12, at 23:03, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Dewayne Geraghty dewayne at heuristicsystems.com.au wrote on
> Sat Feb 13 06:04:52 UTC 2021 :
> 
>> The main list we used was:
>> 
>> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-stable-12/
>> 
>> but that appears dead.
>> . . .
>> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-release/
>> 
>> suspect also dead.
> 
> I should have mentioned this area in my reply to tech-lists.
> This part of things is more git based now, probably
> meaning more use of https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ to look
> at commits/check-ins is needed in order to see the modern
> cross-references between svn and git. (Such is not available
> from the git side.)
> 
> (Older history in svn does not have git references as
> far as I know.)
> 
>> I suspect that
>> 
>> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/dev-commits-src-branches/2021-January/thread.html
>> 
>> is the stable-12 equivalent but are incremental patch releases also
>> available here?
> 
> 
> That covers stable/11 , stable/12 , and stable/13 . But no list
> that I know of covers any releng/* or release/* commit activity.

That last sentence is false as of today for releng/13.0 :

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/dev-commits-src-branches/2021-February/thread.html

lists 7 releng/13.0 entries, the first being:

git: 00abeecb4a25 - releng/13.0 - pf: Slightly relax pf_rule_addr validation   
Kristof Provost


> For the git side of things, one has to look at the likes of
> branches via cgit (or whatever) via the likes of:
> 
> https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/log/?h=releng/12.2
> https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/log/?h=releng/13.0
> 
> Something like release/12.2.0 seems to be via a tag
> on a commit. So https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/log/?h=releng/12.2
> lists it but https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/log/?h=stable/12
> does not. (There are commits to releng/12.2 after the
> release/12.2.0 tag.)
> 
> Of course, for 12 there still is:
> 
> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/release/12.2.0/
> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/releng/12.2/
> 
> as a svn side view of things that has the modern
> cross references to git included.




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Mark Millard
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