SVN checkout

[Andreas Nilsson]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:00 PM, Garrett Cooper <yanegomi at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jan 13, 2012, at 1:55 PM, John Baldwin wrote:
>
> > On Friday, January 13, 2012 4:40:08 pm Andreas Nilsson wrote:
> >> On 01/13/2012 09:51 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> >>> On Jan 13, 2012, at 5:53 AM, Julian Kennedy wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi All
> >>>>
> >>>> Im just joined the list. Im not sure if this is the right place to ask
> >>>> svn questions. I want to checkout the freebsd code to play with it a
> >>>> bit. What should I do and which part of the repo should I checkout? I
> >>>> want the 9.0 code.
> >>>
> >>> $ cd /usr/src
> >>> $ svn co http://svn.freebsd.org/base/release/9.0.0 .
> >> Can I just ask a for a clarification then: would .../release/8.2.5 get
> >> me what after buildworld+buildkernel results in 8.2-RELEASE-p5?
> >>
> >> I ask because I have some interest in having a tree from which i easily
> >> can check out a given patch-version.
> >
> > I don't think we tag the patches, I think they are just committed to
> > releng/8.2 directly.  However, you could look at the logs for a given
> > branch (e.g. svn log --stop-on-copy releng/8.2) and figure out the svn
> > revision that would correspond to 8.2-p5.
>

Thanks.

>
>         That would be my recommendation too. Things aren't always
> consistent between CVS and SVN because they're two separate systems, but it
> should be more consistent with 9.0.0+ (or at least it appeared to have been
> that way because now releng is using SVN primarily for release from what I
> saw and not CVS, which was the way things were in the past).
> Thanks,
> -Garrett

Thanks.

I had some inkling of this :) Shame on my for not keeping checkouts in a
more consistent way.

/Andreas