svn - but smaller?

[John Mehr]

On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 17:05:28 +0200
 "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen at punkt.de> wrote:
> Hi, all,
> 
> first a big big thank you to John an all others involved 
>for all the work.
> 
> A bit more slowly than cvsup but definitely a lot more 
>convenient than
> using plain subversion. Part of the slow performance may 
>be due to the
> fact that there is no local German svn mirror, yet. I'll 
>try with my own mirror
> in a couple of days.
> 
> I immediately asked myself: how can I set this up so I 
>can use "make update"
> like I'm used to? SVN_UPDATE looks for a .svn directory, 
>so it cannot work with
> svnup.
> 
> Here's how:
> 
> root at gordon:/ # cat /etc/make.conf 
> SUP_UPDATE=		yes
> SUP=				/usr/local/bin/svnup
> SUPHOST=			svn0.us-east.freebsd.org
> SUPFLAGS=
> SUPFILE=			-b base/stable/9 -l /usr/src
> PORTSSUPFILE=	-b base/head -l /usr/ports
> 
> OK, this gives a big warning banner and it's an abuse of 
>a mechanism intended
> for another utility … but it works nonetheless ;-)
> 
> I therefore propose an extension to 
>/usr/src/Makefile.inc1 like this:
> 
> update:
> .if defined(SVNUP_UPDATE)
>        @echo 
>"--------------------------------------------------------------"
>        @echo ">>> Running ${SVNUP}"
>        @echo 
>"--------------------------------------------------------------"
> .if defined(SVNUPFLAGS)
>        @${SVNUP} ${SVNUPFLAGS} -h ${SVNUPHOST}
> .endif
> …
> 
> Just a rough sketch - I can put more thought into this 
>if nobody else is already
> working on it.
> 
> Best regards,
> Patrick M. Hausen
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Hello,

I've added support for a configuration/preferences file to 
store commonly used settings for an arbitrary number of 
branches (ports, stable, current, etc.).  For the default 
groups, they can easily be synchronized by executing 
"svnup ports", "svnup stable", etc.