svn commit: r45149 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide
Eitan Adler
eadler at FreeBSD.org
Sun Jun 29 07:40:22 UTC 2014
Author: eadler
Date: Sun Jun 29 07:40:21 2014
New Revision: 45149
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/45149
Log:
Stop comparing svn to CVS. We havn't used CVS in a long time, and its
unlikely that new contributors have either.
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.xml Sun Jun 29 07:40:20 2014 (r45148)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.xml Sun Jun 29 07:40:21 2014 (r45149)
@@ -443,13 +443,6 @@ You need a Passphrase to protect your se
<link xlink:href="http://svnbook.red-bean.com/">Subversion
Book</link>.</para>
- <para><link
- xlink:href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/SubversionMissing">There
- is a list of things missing in Subversion when compared to
- CVS</link>. The notes at <uri
- xlink:href="http://people.freebsd.org/~peter/svn_notes.txt">http://people.freebsd.org/~peter/svn_notes.txt</uri>
- might also be useful.</para>
-
<sect2 xml:id="svn-intro">
<title>Introduction</title>
@@ -479,59 +472,17 @@ You need a Passphrase to protect your se
The first real <acronym>SVN</acronym> commit is
<emphasis>r300894</emphasis>.</para>
- <para>Subversion is not that different from
- <acronym>CVS</acronym> when it comes to daily use, but there
- are differences. Subversion has a number of features that
+ <para>Subversion has a number of features that
should make developers' lives easier. The most important
advantage to Subversion (and the reason why &os; switched) is
that it handles branches and merging much better than CVS
does. Some of the principal differences are:</para>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>Commits are atomic.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Revision numbers apply across the repository—all
- files that were modified in the same commit have the same
- revision number.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Branching and tagging are namespace operations.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Directories are versioned.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Files and directories can have arbitrary, versioned
- metadata attached to them.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Files and directories can be copied, with full history
- tracking.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>No more contortions due to <acronym>CVS</acronym>
- weakness such as applying &man.patch.1; files at compile
- time in order to avoid touching vendor branch code.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>No more repo-copies.</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-
<para>Subversion can be installed from the &os; Ports
Collection by issuing these commands:</para>
- <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/ports/devel/subversion</userinput>
-&prompt.root; <userinput>make clean install</userinput></screen>
+ <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg install subversion</userinput></screen>
+
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="svn-getting-started">
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