[HEADS UP] Ports tree migration to Subversion

[Thomas Abthorpe]

On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 08:59:08PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 05:30:11PM +0000, Thomas Abthorpe wrote:
> > The FreeBSD ports tree will migrate from CVS to Subversion soon. The
> > anticipated date for the migration is July 14th. This will have no impact
> > for ports tree users as there will be a SVN to CVS exporter.
> > 
> > Please note that cvsup will still work after the migration. Nevertheless
> > c(v)sup is pretty dated so you may want to see if portsnap(8) will fit your
> > needs.
> 
> Will it be possible to use subversion directly?

Yes, absolutely, there will be a means to do checkouts over http, just
as we have available for src and docs, unfortunately, I do not have the
details available to me at this moment.
> 
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> Anton Shterenlikht
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-- 
Thomas Abthorpe		| FreeBSD Committer
tabthorpe at FreeBSD.org	| http://people.freebsd.org/~tabthorpe
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