[28857] trunk/dports/python

Anders F Björklund afb at macports.org
Mon Sep 10 03:06:55 PDT 2007


Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> It would be better in these cases to
>
> $ cd dports/python
> $ svn cp py-checker py25-checker
> $ cd py25-checker
>
> and then edit Portfile and commit. This way the history is preserved 
> in the repository (someone looking at "svn log" sees the history of 
> py-checker, someone using "svn blame" sees why the lines were 
> originally added in py-checker), and also only a diff against 
> py-checker needs to be stored (and not the complete portfile and 
> patchfiles again).

Oh, definitely! Is there anyway to undo it now and start over ? (I did 
a couple of ports, since pygtk doesn't work for Python 2.4 anymore I 
supposedly have to update everything and their dog to Python 2.5 now, 
as far as I can tell)

--anders




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