Ports Repocopies

[Mathieu Arnold]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 11:42:44AM -0700, Cy Schubert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Considering git's non-existent copy function, is it safe to say ports 
> repopcopies are now a thing of the past?

Note that we stopped doing repocopies when we switched to subversion in
2012.

If you are talking about doing a svn copy/move to record the ancestry of
a new file, you don't any more, git does not record file moves or
copies.

If you are talking about the resurrection of a port, it would be
possible to achieve the conservation of history by creating a branch
before the port was removed, updating the port, and merging it back into
the main branch using a merge strategy keeping the files on the branch
being merged. But it would probably make reading the logs very ugly, and
add merges everywhere, which we don't want anyway.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold
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