[44460] trunk/base/src/port1.0/portfetch.tcl

[Joshua Root]

Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> On Dec 28, 2008, at 19:48, jmr at macports.org wrote:
> 
>> Revision: 44460
>>           http://trac.macports.org/changeset/44460
>> Author:   jmr at macports.org
>> Date:     2008-12-28 17:48:28 -0800 (Sun, 28 Dec 2008)
>> Log Message:
>> -----------
>> portfetch: use export rather than checkout as the default cvs and svn
>> fetch method, since checkouts aren't persistent anyway.
> 
> 
> 
> Was there really any advantage, other than disk space savings during
> build, of changing this?

Mainly it avoids inadvertent installation of CVS or .svn directories. It
also saves a little bandwidth.

> I'd rather make svn checkouts persist; see:
> 
> http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16373

Feel free, the process described in that ticket sounds great. :-)

- Josh