Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 10:09:40 +0200 From: "John Marino (FreeBSD)" <freebsd.contact@marino.st> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> Cc: marino@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, owner-ports-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r412019 - head/games/tbe Message-ID: <4eeeec4223ac25967c34601fe6f170c7@secure.marino.st> In-Reply-To: <20160329080001.GA81193@FreeBSD.org> References: <201603272245.u2RMjdZS009225@repo.freebsd.org> <20160329073339.GA72433@FreeBSD.org> <e5e99f807d75f25f74da3e4ce0e75613@secure.marino.st> <20160329080001.GA81193@FreeBSD.org>
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On 2016-03-29 10:00, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: >> 2) Repocopy makes sense to me ONCE, when creating a new port. After >> the >> port is created, don't use it within a port. I don't see people doing >> this and I'm glad about that. If we said it's okay returning >> pkg-plist, >> then you can claim it's okay for returning patch files, which is >> absurd. > > That seems arguable; I would consider repocopying even patches if > changes > warrant it, and would certainly repocopy any pkg-* files. It really > helps > to keep the dots connected and makes archaeology much easier. Once you > get into the habit of studying the history before making any changes on > a > port this becomes quite conspicuous. Recopy is not free. There is a price of effort to do this. It slows maintenance down. If somebody is truly doing geneology on a particular port, svn holds enough information. Suggesting to repocopy individual files in a port is too much for benefit of 0.00001% of the time somebody will find such effort useful. Let's not put up even more barriers to maintenance. "Keeping dots connected" doesn't demonstrate a real benefit to me. Surely svn has some kind of "diff between revs" feature that could be used by anyone that cares (which I assume is truly nobody once the academic arguments are put aside). John
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