From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 26 18:30:22 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 1233) id D727B10656E6; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 18:30:22 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 18:30:22 +0000 From: Alexander Best To: Nerius Landys Message-ID: <20110326183022.GB31354@freebsd.org> References: <20110325233826.00000cab@unknown> <20110326110012.GA73916@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Cc: Garrett Cooper , Bruce Cran , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Artem Belevich Subject: Re: Getting /usr/src/ from SVN directly? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 18:30:22 -0000 On Sat Mar 26 11, Nerius Landys wrote: > > one could also use the -F switch in connection with mergemaster(8). > > >From mergemaster manpage: > > "If the files differ only by VCS Id ($FreeBSD) install the new file." > > Yes that is exactly what I want, thanks. np. > > By the way, are there any other ways that are more preferred to get > /usr/src/ than doing what I've done, which is using > devel/subversion-freebsd to checkout head into /usr/src/? actually i think that's the prefered way. i don't think there are any huge speed advantages using rsync. some other projects recommend downloading and extracting a gzip'ed source snapshot and then run svn up. but i don't think the freebsd project produces such src snapshots. cheers. alex -- a13x