svn commit: r412019 - head/games/tbe

[John Marino (FreeBSD)]

On 2016-03-29 10:00, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>> 2) Repocopy makes sense to me ONCE, when creating a new port.  After 
>> the
>> port is created, don't use it within a port.  I don't see people doing
>> this and I'm glad about that.  If we said it's okay returning 
>> pkg-plist,
>> then you can claim it's okay for returning patch files, which is 
>> absurd.
> 
> That seems arguable; I would consider repocopying even patches if 
> changes
> warrant it, and would certainly repocopy any pkg-* files.  It really 
> helps
> to keep the dots connected and makes archaeology much easier.  Once you
> get into the habit of studying the history before making any changes on 
> a
> port this becomes quite conspicuous.

Recopy is not free.  There is a price of effort to do this.  It slows 
maintenance down.  If somebody is truly doing geneology on a particular 
port, svn holds enough information.  Suggesting to repocopy individual 
files in a port is too much for benefit of 0.00001% of the time somebody 
will find such effort useful.

Let's not put up even more barriers to maintenance.  "Keeping dots 
connected" doesn't demonstrate a real benefit to me.  Surely svn has 
some kind of "diff between revs" feature that could be used by anyone 
that cares (which I assume is truly nobody once the academic arguments 
are put aside).

John