[HEADS UP] Ports tree migration to Subversion

[Jason Helfman]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 02:47:34PM -0700, Kevin Oberman thus spake:
>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.

You may want to look at the manpage for portsnap.conf and see how
advantageous it may be to use the REFUSE option.

-jgh

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