Getting /usr/src/ from SVN directly?

[Alexander Best]

On Sat Mar 26 11, Nerius Landys wrote:
> > one could also use the -F switch in connection with mergemaster(8).
> 
> >From mergemaster manpage:
> 
> "If the files differ only by VCS Id ($FreeBSD) install the new file."
> 
> Yes that is exactly what I want, thanks.

np.

> 
> By the way, are there any other ways that are more preferred to get
> /usr/src/ than doing what I've done, which is using
> devel/subversion-freebsd to checkout head into /usr/src/?

actually i think that's the prefered way. i don't think there are any huge
speed advantages using rsync. some other projects recommend downloading and
extracting a gzip'ed source snapshot and then run svn up.

but i don't think the freebsd project produces such src snapshots.

cheers.
alex

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