cvs deprecated

[Warren Block]

On Thu, 27 Dec 2012, Garrett Cooper wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 1:18 AM, Wojciech Puchar
> <wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
>> but i can't find "moron guide" for using svn to update tree.
>>
>> I never used cvs or svn myself just want to
>>
>> 1) get latest FreeBSD 9-* sources
>> 2) get latest HEAD sources.
>
> 1. Checkout the sources:
>
> cd /usr/src # Change to something else if you don't want to checkout
> to /usr/src.
> svn co http://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/9 . # stable/9
> svn co http://svn.freebsd.org/base/head . # CURRENT
>
> 2. Updating:
>
> cd /usr/src # Same caveat as above.
> svn up
>
> See also: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/svn.html .

I see a lot of people switching to the target directory first rather 
than just including it as an argument for svn.  Is there an advantage 
there that I'm missing?  I've always just used

   svn co http://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/9 /usr/src

and

   svn up /usr/src