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Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2017 13:47:11 -0600
From: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>
To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: How do I recover a lost ports directory with svn?
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On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 02:44:16PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> writes:
> 
> >                                     Unfortunately the documentation for
> > svn seems skimpy (at best)
> 
> Not so. Every command has extensive help, and there's a whole book on
> the subversion website explaining the concepts.

I get the availability of the book (which I don't have), but I'd hardly claim
that the provided command help is extensive. Hardly more than traditional Unix
Usage info.

Personally, I would much prefer a real man page.

Bob

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