Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:14:55 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What replaces csup? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1209172102400.26215@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20567.50041.903201.979498@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <D97788AE24B7FFB0C79AA6FB@localhost> <k38bct$ang$1@ger.gmane.org> <780066C6E2FAB67A997876B7@Pauls-MacBook-Pro.local> <20567.50041.903201.979498@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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On Mon, 17 Sep 2012, Robert Huff wrote: > > Paul Schmehl writes: > >> Does csup use subversion now? Or do we need to use something >> else to fetch source? > > As I understand it, for the average user c(vs)up and subversion > serve the same function using different methods (both in terms of > identifying what files need to be fetched and actually fetching > them). At this level of discussion they are mutually exclusive. > I have switched from csup to subversion for ports and docs. > After modest preparation it was essentially painless. The difference is that a local svn checkout has all the commit history. A comparison recently showed 700-some megabytes more space used by the svn checkout. csup updates just the files that have changed without all the overhead. svn export can get a copy of all the current files, but it copies all of them every time, not just the changes. An svnup program was under development, but I don't know the present status.
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