Re: keeping track of local modifications

2008-12-02 Thread Eygene Ryabinkin
jT, good day. Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 07:15:55PM -0500, jT wrote: > On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The fact that `$FreeBSD$' is extracted in unexpanded form by the current > > svn->hg converter is a limitation of the Python bindings of Subversion. > >

Re: keeping track of local modifications

2008-12-02 Thread jT
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:08:25 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Git and Mercurial cannot import Subversion $FreeBSD$ lines so far, and you may end up submitting patches that include unexpanded forms of the "$

Re: keeping track of local modifications

2008-12-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:08:25 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Git and Mercurial cannot import Subversion $FreeBSD$ lines so far, >>> and you may end up submitting patches that include unexpanded forms >>> of the "$FreeBSD: $" text. These will fail to apply if they >>> same patch touches ne

Re: keeping track of local modifications

2008-12-01 Thread Eygene Ryabinkin
Perry, good day. Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 09:08:25PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Git and Mercurial cannot import Subversion $FreeBSD$ lines > > > so far, and you may end up submitting patches that include > > > unexpanded forms of the "$FreeBSD: $" text. These will > > > fail to apply

Re: keeping track of local modifications

2008-12-01 Thread perryh
> > Git and Mercurial cannot import Subversion $FreeBSD$ lines > > so far, and you may end up submitting patches that include > > unexpanded forms of the "$FreeBSD: $" text. These will > > fail to apply if they same patch touches nearby lines. > > Ahm, yes. "sed -e's|$FreeBSD: [^$]* \$|$Free

Re: keeping track of local modifications

2008-12-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 22:56:02 +0300, Eygene Ryabinkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Giorgos, good day. Hi Eygene, thanks. The same to you too :) >> Git and Mercurial cannot import Subversion $FreeBSD$ lines so far, >> and you may end up submitting patches that include unexpanded forms >> of the "$F

Re: keeping track of local modifications

2008-12-01 Thread Eygene Ryabinkin
Giorgos, good day. Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 07:21:03PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 11:23:40 +0300, Eygene Ryabinkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > May be I am missing something, but what's wrong with the patches from > > other VCS, providing that with Subversion you can exchan

Re: keeping track of local modifications

2008-12-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 11:23:40 +0300, Eygene Ryabinkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > May be I am missing something, but what's wrong with the patches from > other VCS, providing that with Subversion you can exchange only by the > plain diffs? Yes, Git/Mercurial patches should be applied with 'patch >

Re: keeping track of local modifications

2008-12-01 Thread Eygene Ryabinkin
Max, good day. Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 08:30:16AM +0100, Max Laier wrote: > On Monday 01 December 2008 07:07:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > * http://wiki.freebsd.org/LocalMercurial > > > > This seems less of a resource hog, and (if I am understanding > > matters correctly) is able to start from

Re: keeping track of local modifications

2008-11-30 Thread Max Laier
On Monday 01 December 2008 07:07:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Tim Kientzle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... most of us are volunteers who enjoy using and working on > > FreeBSD in our (often quite limited) spare time ... If I only > > have a couple of hours a week, I'd usually rather spend it c

Re: keeping track of local modifications

2008-11-30 Thread Tim Kientzle
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim Kientzle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... most of us are volunteers who enjoy using and working on FreeBSD in our (often quite limited) spare time ... If I only have a couple of hours a week, I'd usually rather spend it coding ... Sounds familiar :) Getting back t

Re: keeping track of local modifications

2008-11-30 Thread perryh
Tim Kientzle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... most of us are volunteers who enjoy using and working on > FreeBSD in our (often quite limited) spare time ... If I only > have a couple of hours a week, I'd usually rather spend it coding > ... Sounds familiar :) Getting back to the OP's original q

Re: keeping track of local modifications

2008-11-30 Thread Tim Kientzle
* Search the source code for "TODO" or "XXX" to find comments ... *slaps self for not thinking of this* Thanks for reminding me of this. I'm now working on * TODO: Make this better, so that "./a//b/./c/" == "a/b/c" part of src/usr.bin/tar/util.c I found a copy of abspath() in usr.sbin/pkg_ins

Re: keeping track of local modifications

2008-11-30 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
On Sunday 30 November 2008 5:26:07 pm Tim Kientzle wrote: > Eitan Adler wrote: > > As an aside can anyone point me to a relatively easy bug/feature that I > > can work on as a beginner C coder? > > There are thousands of such; could you narrow it down > a little bit? Are you interested in kernel h

Re: keeping track of local modifications

2008-11-30 Thread Eitan Adler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Kientzle wrote: > Eitan Adler wrote: > There are thousands of such; could you narrow it down > a little bit? Are you interested in kernel hacking? > Device support? Core libraries? Networking? Utilities? > Porting? Utilities mostly for now. >

Re: keeping track of local modifications

2008-11-30 Thread Tim Kientzle
Eitan Adler wrote: As an aside can anyone point me to a relatively easy bug/feature that I can work on as a beginner C coder? There are thousands of such; could you narrow it down a little bit? Are you interested in kernel hacking? Device support? Core libraries? Networking? Utilities? Port

Re: keeping track of local modifications

2008-11-30 Thread Max Laier
On Sunday 30 November 2008 04:08:34 Eitan Adler wrote: ... > >> 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/ > > Most of these involve C coding beyond my skill level. Find a proj

Re: keeping track of local modifications

2008-11-29 Thread Eitan Adler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Max Laier wrote: > > Use svk. There is information about how to set that up on the wiki: > http://wiki.freebsd.org/SubversionPrimer This is what I am doing *waits for sync to complete* > >> As an aside can anyone point me to a relatively easy bug/f

Re: keeping track of local modifications

2008-11-29 Thread Gábor Kövesdán
Eitan Adler escribió: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: keeping track of local modifications

2008-11-29 Thread Max Laier
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 don