How do I recover a lost ports directory with svn?

Thomas Mueller mueller6722 at twc.com
Wed Dec 27 10:53:01 UTC 2017


from Lowell Gilbert:

> That's fair. The help messages are enough for me to work out syntax
> without going back to first principles, but, yes, that's pretty much
> what I expect from a man page.
        
> > Personally, I would much prefer a real man page.

> Funny you should mention that. Some years back, I bashed out a script
> that turned the svn help into a browsable document. I can't find that
> tool in a quick search of my backups, and I don't even remember whether
> it converted things into HTML or info files. [As an emacs user, info is
> roughly equivalent to HTML for such things; I have no idea how info can
> be useful if you aren't using emacs to browse the docs.]

> But the point is that I found the cross-link information fairly easy to
> parse. And once you can do that, you can turn it into anything useful.
        
I wish GNU would switch away from info in favor of man or html!

When I ran Linux Slackware 13.0, Konqueror in KDE had a good info viewer.

Otherwise, there is misc/pinfo in ports.


Tom



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