portsnap - overwrite local changes

Guido Falsi mad at madpilot.net
Tue Jan 22 16:13:19 UTC 2013


On 01/22/13 16:59, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
>
> "Joseph A. Nagy, Jr" <jnagyjr1978 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I know when I run it manually and there is a conflict, it will tell me
>> about a merge-conflict and ask me which file to keep (mine or theirs),
>> selecting theirs, afaik, overwrites my local file.
>
> And when there is no conflict and it can be merged, you have a merged
> file. And in some point in time your local /usr/ports is messed up
> with forgotten local changes and so on... I just wanna make sure to
> automatically "clean up" my /usr/ports. CVSup did this :(

As I said, svn revert -R . does remove local changes to tracked files. 
It will ignore added files it does not know about.

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Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net>


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