svn commit: r403800 - in head: Mk databases databases/mysql57-client databases/mysql57-client/files databases/mysql57-server databases/mysql57-server/files

[Mathieu Arnold]

+--On 13 janvier 2016 17:38:23 +1300 Pierre Guinoiseau
<pierre at guinoiseau.eu> wrote:
| On 13/01/16 16:33, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
|> On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 11:35:44PM +0100, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
|>> +--On 10 janvier 2016 21:16:15 +0100 Kurt Jaeger <pi at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
|>> | Hi!
|>> | 
|>> | [...]
|>> | 2) it would be great if
|>> | 
|>> | https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide
|>> | /por ts.html#ports-qa-repocopy-when also had a reasoning and a
|>> | use-case for why having proper repo-copies is important.
|>> 
|>> To preserve history.
|> 
|> I was actually somewhat surprised by "why having proper repo-copies is
|> important" question as well. :-/  Kurt, the answer to this perhaps could
|> be easily found in your SVN manual.  If you're not wondering why we just
|> won't put the Ports Tree on FTP and update it by uploading fresh copies
|> of files, reasons for repocopies and repomoves should IMHO be obvious.
|> 
|> ./danfe
| 
| This is not obvious for someone coming from git, which can track history
| of copied/moved files without any babysitting (git log --follow).

Well, git log --follow is the poor man's version of following the history.
If I rename the file, and at the same time rewrite a lot of it, git won't
find the history.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold
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