keeping track of local modifications

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 11:23:40 +0300, Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-fbsd at codelabs.ru> 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
> -p1', but that's all.  Subversion has no notion simular to 'git
> format-patch' and 'git am', if I am not messing the things up, so the
> only way to exchange with others are the patches themselves.

Conflicts...

Git and Mercurial cannot import Subversion $FreeBSD$ lines so far, and
you may end up submitting patches that include unexpanded forms of the
"$FreeBSD: xxxx $" text.  These will fail to apply if they same patch
touches nearby lines.

I like Mercurial myself, but it's some times a pain to refresh patches
that touch lines near "$FreeBSD$".

> The only issue I do see is about '$FreeBSD$', but plain Subversion
> clients shouldn't mess with it.

Bingo :)