Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 09:16:48 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Update /usr/src with subversion Message-ID: <51FF5F70.7020205@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAHAXwYDuRuA3iiWfu3yB19ShKMPikLu%2B21bXkmZf4X2AjLaMBw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAHAXwYDuRuA3iiWfu3yB19ShKMPikLu%2B21bXkmZf4X2AjLaMBw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 05/08/2013 09:00, David Noel wrote: > Does anyone know how a workaround for having to rm -rf /usr/src every > time the source URL changes? I'm updating from 8.3 to 8.4 with > subversion and got a message along the lines of "Error: /usr/src/ > contains files from a different URL". -David You need 'svn switch' -- so, if you've got some other branch checked out, and you want to have 8.4-RELEASE instead, then it's something like: # svn switch ^/base/releng/8.4 This will speedily change your checked out tree with minimal network IO. You can also use 'svn switch --relocate' to change which svn servers you have the tree checked out from or the protocol (svn://, https:// etc) used. See the output of 'svn help switch' for details. Cheers, Matthew
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