[HEADS UP] Ports tree migration to Subversion

[Kevin Oberman]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Thomas Abthorpe <tabthorpe at freebsd.org> 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.
>
> Beat and Thomas
> on behalf of portmgr@
>
> http://blogs.freebsdish.org/portmgr/2012/06/27/ports-tree-migration-to-subversion/

While portsnap has several advantages over csup, it is unusable in my
case because I have always maintained local mods to ports in the ports
tree and portsnap neatly removes them. I may move to using svn to
maintain my own copy of the tree and update the working directory
where I can keep my customizations.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
E-mail: kob6558 at gmail.com