From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 27 15:11:53 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA5C1482 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:11:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DF848FC13 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:11:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id qBRFBqWZ066618; Thu, 27 Dec 2012 08:11:52 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) with ESMTP id qBRFBqLX066615; Thu, 27 Dec 2012 08:11:52 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 08:11:52 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: Garrett Cooper Subject: Re: cvs deprecated In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 27 Dec 2012 08:11:52 -0700 (MST) Cc: Wojciech Puchar , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:11:53 -0000 On Thu, 27 Dec 2012, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 6:50 AM, Warren Block wrote: > > ... > >> I see a lot of people switching to the target directory first rather than >> just including it as an argument for svn. Is there an advantage there that >> I'm missing? I've always just used >> >> svn co http://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/9 /usr/src >> >> and >> >> svn up /usr/src > > No difference really, other than the cumulative amount of typed > characters is less in the former form compared to the latter form. Ah, I see what you mean. Depends on whether you were going to cd into the target directory immediately. svn up can update multiple local working copies through one command, too: svn up /usr/src /usr/ports