Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2017 10:50:11 +0000 From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6722@twc.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I recover a lost ports directory with svn? References: <20171226162754.GE99670@rancor.immure.com> <44bmilcm0f.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <20171226194710.GG99670@rancor.immure.com> <44373wdi5p.fsf@lowell-desk.lan>
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from Lowell Gilbert:
> That's fair. The help messages are enough for me to work out syntax
> without going back to first principles, but, yes, that's pretty much
> what I expect from a man page.
> > Personally, I would much prefer a real man page.
> Funny you should mention that. Some years back, I bashed out a script
> that turned the svn help into a browsable document. I can't find that
> tool in a quick search of my backups, and I don't even remember whether
> it converted things into HTML or info files. [As an emacs user, info is
> roughly equivalent to HTML for such things; I have no idea how info can
> be useful if you aren't using emacs to browse the docs.]
> But the point is that I found the cross-link information fairly easy to
> parse. And once you can do that, you can turn it into anything useful.
I wish GNU would switch away from info in favor of man or html!
When I ran Linux Slackware 13.0, Konqueror in KDE had a good info viewer.
Otherwise, there is misc/pinfo in ports.
Tom
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