Conversion to SVN

Chris Rees crees at freebsd.org
Sat Oct 8 08:54:18 UTC 2011


On 7 October 2011 23:17, Ulrich Spörlein <uqs at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 22:15:57 +0100, Gavin Atkinson wrote:
>> > > I haven't really thought that through to the end, but setting up a
>> > > separate svn repo just seems silly to me and is another administrative
>> > > overhead. ports might be special enough (due to sheer size) to justify a
>> > > separate repo/machine, but not doc/www.
>>
>> It may actually be easier, as all the infrastructure from the src repo can
>> possibly be reused easily.  Combining them may be harder as more work
>> would presumably need to be done on sorting out ACLs for src and doc
>> committers, etc?
>
> Not really, it's just a couple of paths more. Every doc and ports
> committer has write access to parts of the src tree, otherwise they
> couldn't update the committers.dot or calender.freebsd entries
> themselves.
>

Parts of the src tree? All the trees are free-for-all for anyone, it's
just you get a nice suspiscious-looking THIS COMMITTER DOESN'T BELONG
HERE tag in the commit message!

Example:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-all/2011-September/042703.html

Chris



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