svn commit: r403800 - in head: Mk databases databases/mysql57-client databases/mysql57-client/files databases/mysql57-server databases/mysql57-server/files

[Pierre Guinoiseau]

On 13/01/16 16:33, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 11:35:44PM +0100, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
>> +--On 10 janvier 2016 21:16:15 +0100 Kurt Jaeger <pi at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>> | Hi!
>> | 
>> | [...]
>> | 2) it would be great if
>> | 
>> | https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/por
>> | ts.html#ports-qa-repocopy-when also had a reasoning and a use-case for
>> | why having proper repo-copies is important.
>>
>> To preserve history.
> 
> I was actually somewhat surprised by "why having proper repo-copies is
> important" question as well. :-/  Kurt, the answer to this perhaps could be
> easily found in your SVN manual.  If you're not wondering why we just won't
> put the Ports Tree on FTP and update it by uploading fresh copies of files,
> reasons for repocopies and repomoves should IMHO be obvious.
> 
> ./danfe

This is not obvious for someone coming from git, which can track history
of copied/moved files without any babysitting (git log --follow).

-- 
Pierre Guinoiseau <pierre at guinoiseau.eu>
http://segmentationfau.lt/ | +PierreGuinoiseau | @peikk00

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