Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 06:21:25 -0900 From: Royce Williams <royce@tycho.org> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <ports@freebsd.org>, Joseph a Nagy Jr <jnagyjr1978@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Users Handbook Message-ID: <CA%2BE3k91HvmhCTihUxN5Rm54mSUAhoVtms9Oiis3UX1zy4_urMQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1211160807280.74281@wonkity.com> References: <50A64F69.30607@gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1211160807280.74281@wonkity.com>
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On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 6:15 AM, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote:
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> The only way to force the user to pick a mirror is to change the example so it won't work until they do. Like this:
>
> Pick an svn mirror and replace the {svnmirror} string below with the
> URL.
>
> # svn checkout {svnmirror} /usr/ports
>
> That type of non-working example is confusing. If we show one of the actual mirrors, 99% of users will cut and paste that example and not change it. (Actually, that's an exaggeration. It's closer to 100%.)
>
> I'd really like to do that better. Any ideas?
Speaking pie-in-the-sky, is there an equivalent of fastest-cvsup for
SVN? If not, creating a 'fastest-svn' and using that as the example
treats the cut-and-paste symptom. Having a way to prompt the user to
ask if they want to cache its results might be even better.
Royce
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