Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:13:29 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@freebsd.org> Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: svn commit: r251886 - in head: contrib/apr contrib/apr-util contrib/serf contrib/sqlite3 contrib/subversion share/mk usr.bin usr.bin/svn usr.bin/svn/lib usr.bin/svn/lib/libapr usr.bin/svn/lib/libap... Message-ID: <201306191113.29703.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <51C1C7BD.9060201@FreeBSD.org> References: <201306180253.r5I2rj45053959@svn.freebsd.org> <11DA3D8A-AD20-4DE1-B807-D09814F61947@bsdimp.com> <51C1C7BD.9060201@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wednesday, June 19, 2013 11:01:17 am Tijl Coosemans wrote: > I'm also not convinced svnup in base would be good, because it still > pulls src directly from svn and that would not be the case with a > portsnap-like tool. With portsnap code distribution is separated from > the underlying vcs. portsnap does not work for src. (I thought we had already covered that in earlier threads?) portsnap only moves forward. It is a very important feature for our users that whatever tool they use for source updating be bidirectional. In particular it is very common practice to use a bisect operation to isolate changes responsible for regressions. -- John Baldwin
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