[73237] trunk/doc-new/guide/xml/portfile-phase.xml

[ryandesign at macports.org]

Revision: 73237
          http://trac.macports.org/changeset/73237
Author:   ryandesign at macports.org
Date:     2010-11-06 23:40:03 -0700 (Sat, 06 Nov 2010)
Log Message:
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portfile-phase.xml: document svn.method

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/doc-new/guide/xml/portfile-phase.xml

Modified: trunk/doc-new/guide/xml/portfile-phase.xml
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--- trunk/doc-new/guide/xml/portfile-phase.xml	2010-11-07 06:34:31 UTC (rev 73236)
+++ trunk/doc-new/guide/xml/portfile-phase.xml	2010-11-07 06:40:03 UTC (rev 73237)
@@ -815,6 +815,31 @@
             </itemizedlist>
           </listitem>
         </varlistentry>
+
+        <varlistentry>
+          <term>svn.method</term>
+
+          <listitem>
+            <para>Optional tag for fetching with Subversion, this specifies
+            whether to check out the code into a working copy, or just export
+            it without the working copy metadata. An export is preferable
+            because it takes half the disk space, but some software expects
+            to be built in a working copy (for example because it wants to
+            record the revision number into itself somewhere).</para>
+
+            <itemizedlist>
+              <listitem>
+                <para>Default: export</para>
+              </listitem>
+
+              <listitem>
+                <para>Example:</para>
+
+                <programlisting>svn.method          checkout</programlisting>
+              </listitem>
+            </itemizedlist>
+          </listitem>
+        </varlistentry>
       </variablelist>
     </section>
 
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