How to determine the history of a port

Yuri Pankov yuri.pankov at gmail.com
Mon May 24 00:05:09 UTC 2010


On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 04:46:46PM -0700, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> Greetings again. A few years ago, I proposed editors/emacs-nox11 and submitted a patch to create it, and thus became listed in the comments at the beginning of the Makefile (but I am not the package maintainer, I believe). Today I got a report that the package does not build; I verified this. I want to help the user, but I have no idea how the change that broke the build was added to the Makefile.
> 
> How do I find the history so I can find out who added the problematic line and figure out what they actually meant?
> 
> --Paul Hoffman

cvs -d anoncvs at anoncvs1.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs rlog ports/editors/emacs-nox11
or
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/editors/emacs-nox11/


HTH,
Yuri


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