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From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: How do I recover a lost ports directory with svn?
References: <20171226162754.GE99670@rancor.immure.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2017 14:44:16 -0500
In-Reply-To: <20171226162754.GE99670@rancor.immure.com> (Bob Willcox's message
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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.