repo copy (svn cp) gives pre-commit "Do not replace a file. This will break the CVS exporter."

Chris Rees crees at FreeBSD.org
Sat May 11 13:36:35 UTC 2013


On 11 May 2013 14:24, Palle Girgensohn <girgen at freebsd.org> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I though I could just do my own repo copies not, using svn copy in the
> ports tree. Is this just not allowed, due to the CVS exporter?
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> Will I still have to request a repo copy from portmgr@?


Depends what you are repocopying from -> to.  If you are copying a
file over an existing file, that is disallowed (though why, I'm not
sure-- I think the exporter hooks were left enabled even though we
don't export any more).

What are you trying to do?

Chris


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