Re: Forgotten MFC
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Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2025 05:14:47 UTC
On Thu, 17 Apr 2025 19:16:00 -0600 Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: > We really need to go to a system where we can add Notes to commits after > the fact (like we did with svn numbers in the conversion) so that we can tag > commits after the fact for merging (I forgot, or don't think it's > important enough > at the time, only to change my mind later) as well as say 'nope, this > has a problem > don't commit it' as well as gathering groups together to merge as a > unit incrementally > (again, for those that the committer might not have tagged it as > x-mfc-with because > the dependency was unknown at commit time). The notes are optional, and one > can clone them or not, unless one wants the functionality, so it > doesn't affect the > instructions that we send out. And adding notes doesn't change the hash, > though notes aren't versioned very well (but well enough to reconstruct > accidental or malicious If the migration was to Fossil instead of stupid Git, we'd already had such notes for free (and amending without hash rewrites, it's just another control artifact in Fossil). -- WBR, @nuclight