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

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 5, 2009, at 01:50, Joshua Root wrote:

> 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.

That's a good point.

> It also saves a little bandwidth.

Hmm. I thought Subversion pulled the same information over the wire,  
regardless of whether it's an export or a checkout, and that where  
they differ is just in where that information then gets written to disk.


>> I'd rather make svn checkouts persist; see:
>>
>> http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16373
>
> Feel free, the process described in that ticket sounds great. :-)

I might, one day. :) Until then exports instead of checkouts are  
probably a good idea.