Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2017 20:37:25 -0600 From: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I recover a lost ports directory with svn? Message-ID: <20171227023725.GE15686@rancor.immure.com> In-Reply-To: <44373wdi5p.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> References: <20171226162754.GE99670@rancor.immure.com> <44bmilcm0f.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <20171226194710.GG99670@rancor.immure.com> <44373wdi5p.fsf@lowell-desk.lan>
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On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 09:22:10PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> writes: > > > On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 02:44:16PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > >> Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> writes: > >> > >> > Unfortunately the documentation for > >> > svn seems skimpy (at best) > >> > >> Not so. Every command has extensive help, and there's a whole book on > >> the subversion website explaining the concepts. > > > > I get the availability of the book (which I don't have), but I'd hardly claim > > that the provided command help is extensive. Hardly more than traditional Unix > > Usage info. > > That's fair. The help messages are enough for me to work out syntax > without going back to first principles, but, yes, that's pretty much > what I expect from a man page. > > > Personally, I would much prefer a real man page. > > Funny you should mention that. Some years back, I bashed out a script > that turned the svn help into a browsable document. I can't find that > tool in a quick search of my backups, and I don't even remember whether > it converted things into HTML or info files. [As an emacs user, info is > roughly equivalent to HTML for such things; I have no idea how info can > be useful if you aren't using emacs to browse the docs.] > > But the point is that I found the cross-link information fairly easy to > parse. And once you can do that, you can turn it into anything useful. > > Be full. Well, I guess I was hoping to figure out why the 'svn up' command wasn't getting me back the missing swig13 directory. I think I understand that now (bapt removed it), but at the time it was frustrating. I've written my share of man pages over the years and do believe that a good manpage provides more information and insight to the usage of a command than the svn help does (I find the pkg man pages quite helpful, for example). Bob -- Bob Willcox | If everything is coming your way, you're in the bob@immure.com | wrong lane. Austin, TX |
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