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From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To: Brandon J. Wandersee <brandon.wandersee@gmail.com>
Cc: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>,
 "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Ports upgrade ....
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Brandon J. Wandersee <brandon.wandersee@gmail.com> writes:

> Lowell Gilbert writes:
>
>> "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> writes:
>>
>>> It brought down almost 14K updates for 3-ish weeks .... I know the
>>> ports effort is a feverish hive of productivity, but that sounded a
>>> bit high :-) .... Is that number anomalous, maybe coincident w/ new
>>> quarter, something else ? More question than problem, but curious. TIA
>>> & have a good one.
>>
>> If you're switching from one quarterly branch to the next, then sure,
>> you've pretty much got three months worth of updates at once.
>
> I thought portsnap couldn't fetch from the quarterly branches? Or did my
> caffeine-starved brain just misread something? :P

Or I could just be wrong.

I took a quick look at the documentation and the code and I'm not sure.