Re: Dropping RCS tags from the repo
Stuart Henderson: > Otherwise please do not send diffs to just drop them, we will do a bulk > sweep (at least of standard ports files) at some point, hopefully quite > soon - it is not helpful to do that unless it's going to be committed > soon after as it will get out of sync very quickly The point is that those RCS keywords are a distraction that is going away. Now their removal itself is becoming a distraction, which we really don't want. Don't worry, they'll just disappear very soon now and then we can pretend they never existed and continue with more important work. BTW, the release is also coming up and we'll slow down ports development soon. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
Re: Dropping RCS tags from the repo
Mikolaj Kucharski: > In recent years I don't have that much time to follow OpenBSD that > closely, but was wondering what is the background of dropping the > RCS IDs from the repo. They are of little practical use in the ports tree. As far as disadvantages go, the $OpenBSD$ keywords keep causing conflicts when merging changes back into -stable. Also, some people seem to mistake the committer who last touched a port for the maintainer. > Does that mean all files under ports repo should have RCS tags to > be removed or only specific files? No file in a port should have an $OpenBSD$ keyword. We will keep them in some files in the infrastructure directory, since talking about, say, bsd.port.mk revision such-and-such actually comes up with some regularity. It's a simplification really. Now you don't need to remember to add $OpenBSD$ when creating a port. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
Re: Dropping RCS tags from the repo
On 2022/03/09 20:06, Mikolaj Kucharski wrote: > Hi, > > In recent years I don't have that much time to follow OpenBSD that > closely, but was wondering what is the background of dropping the > RCS IDs from the repo. > > Does that mean all files under ports repo should have RCS tags to > be removed or only specific files? If you are updating ports you can drop the RCS IDs as part of the update Otherwise please do not send diffs to just drop them, we will do a bulk sweep (at least of standard ports files) at some point, hopefully quite soon - it is not helpful to do that unless it's going to be committed soon after as it will get out of sync very quickly Background is that they have been causing more trouble than good for people doing wider work across the tree (CVS likes to generate conflicts out of nowhere, and this is one of the main places it does it), also there are some other smaller issues
Dropping RCS tags from the repo
Hi, In recent years I don't have that much time to follow OpenBSD that closely, but was wondering what is the background of dropping the RCS IDs from the repo. Does that mean all files under ports repo should have RCS tags to be removed or only specific files? -- Regards, Mikolaj
