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Subject: Re: svn commit: r219788 - head/release
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On Saturday, March 19, 2011 7:10:40 pm Garrett Cooper wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Nathan Whitehorn
> <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > Author: nwhitehorn
> > Date: Sat Mar 19 23:06:17 2011
> > New Revision: 219788
> > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/219788
> >
> > Log:
> >  Add support for checking out ports and doc trees from a CVS repository,
> >  in addition to CVSUP, and add support for alternate SVN roots for src.
> >
> >  Requested by: jhb
> 
> Although this seems good and all, wouldn't it make sense to split off
> the pulling infrastructure into separate scripts so that someone could
> have hooks to do:
> 
> - pre-pull (create paths, whatever)
> - pull
> - post-pull (patch?)
> 
> That way someone could choose any arbitrary SCM (git, hg, etc),
> specify necessary configuration files, and apply local patches as
> necessary.

The old release(7) infrastructure did do that (see things like LOCAL_PATCHES, 
EXTSRCDIR, LOCAL_SCRIPTS, etc.).  However, we should definitely streamline the 
case for the tools that re@ will actually use for official releases (doc and 
ports from CVS, src from either CVS or SVN).

-- 
John Baldwin