On Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 1:31 AM Tomohiro Kusumi <kusumi.tomoh...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> 2019年12月28日(土) 5:24 Warner Losh <i...@bsdimp.com>:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 12:45 PM Sevan Janiyan <ventur...@geeklan.co.uk>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi tkusumi,
> >> Thanks for the work you are doing.
> >>
> >> On 27/12/2019 11:06, Tomohiro Kusumi wrote:
> >> > taken-from: FreeBSD
> (freebsd/freebsd@b4d7ad9f787e74e712423def67de8bd76f71943a)
> >>
> >> One minor nit, could you please cite the revision in the svn repo which
> >> is the source of truth and not the readonly git mirror, this is in case
> >> something happens to the mirror and hashes end up changing in the
> future.
> >
> >
> > FreeBSD is planning a conversion to git.
>
> Yes, that's the reason I'm using Git hash here.
> Nowadays I don't use their svn repo at all, so if recording Git hash
> is not appropriate, I'll just note "taken-from: FreeBSD" without any
> specific revision#.
>

It's a silly reason. Svn revision numbers will be preserved in the
conversion process. Git hashes likely won't so this hash may be
unconvertable to anything at all in the future...

Warner

> It's an open question at the moment what happens to the 'beta' readonly
> export we're doing to github. There's a number of technical issues with it
> which make using it for our source of truth difficult on an ongoing basis,
> so there's a real chance the hashes will change for people just grabbing a
> FreeBSD tree...
> >
> > Warner
>

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