Freebsd-update to 9.3 from 9.2

Doug Hardie bc979 at lafn.org
Sun Jul 20 05:21:54 UTC 2014


On 19 July 2014, at 05:27, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 19 Jul 2014, Doug Hardie wrote:
> 
>> On 18 July 2014, at 16:01, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
>>> It's not necessary to delete the source every time.  But /usr/src should be empty before the initial svn checkout, or there will be files in there that are unmanaged and can cause problems.  The Subversion instructions mention this.  (Or at least some of them do, we have a fair amount of similar sections in different chapters and sections that need to be combined.)
>>> 
>> 
>> I didn't find any mention of that in the manual.
> 
> There is one here:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/svn.html#svn-usage
> 

Yes there is, now that I understand it.  For those who know - its all there.  For those who don't, its not obvious.  The focus of the manual should be different from the man pages.




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