net/svnup

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bkouhi

Hi all,

I just want to introduce a very useful utility named net/svnup. You can checkout FreeBSD source tree with this lightweight, dependency-free and BSD-licensed program instead of devel/subversion. To install net/svnup:

# cd /usr/ports/net/svnup/ && make install clean

Example (from manual page):
# svnup -h svn0.us-west.freebsd.org -b base/stable/9 -l /usr/src

It will be good if FreeBSD developers include this program in base system.
HTH
 
Good suggestions, I'll try to contact with developer and reach your suggestions to him. (Of course if you permit me).

As far as I know, it doesn't support https protocol. (I tried it before)

Another difference between original svn client and svnup is svnup doesn't use .svn directory. So please don't try it on an existing local copy that checked out with original svn client.
 
I informed him of this thread. He said "The suggestions on the forum (so far) are already on my to-do list." and "I've bookmarked the thread and will keep my eye on it for more suggestions."

So if anyone has any other suggestions or ideas, please post them in this thread.

Thanks!
 
Now, this is not something I'll be using myself (to be honest I approached this with some scepticism at first) but this is most certainly one admirable project, I can't help stating the (perhaps) obvious.

So if you're like me during late hours and came across this tread by accident ("yeah, I'll bet it depends on devel/subversion"; my honest first thoughts) then you may be in for a surprise (my sole reason for clicking & commenting).

I ran # make all-depends-list and got surprised when it returned nothing. But curious as I now had become I still had no intention of trying this out (no offense!) because Subversion works for me.

Even so, running # make patch from within net/svnup and then only seeing 1 relevant file (ignoring overhead such as manual pages) called svnup.c is what I call impressive.

My 'thanks' is based on that but also because I learned something new with regards to the Ports collection, which I really value a lot.

AND: I got a bug report ;) It appears that the port maintainer included both svnup.conf as well as svnup.conf.bak in this port addition, you can see this for yourself when issuing my previously mentioned # make patch.

My bet is most people won't notice because the common way is using # make install clean (mind the clean part) and I had to be a bit different again :e

Either way; I think this looks impressive. Most ports you come across consist of a whole lot of files these days, so this really stands out to me (even though I can't comment on functionality).
 
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