Homebrew

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On May 18, 2010, at 11:20 AM, Rainer Müller wrote:

> On 2010-05-18 20:10 , Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
>>
>> On May 18, 2010, at 11:01 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
>>
>>> On May 18, 2010, at 1:48 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
>>>> This comment almost makes me mad. The handful committers don't need
>>>> local repos. Wonder why?
>>>
>>> I don't need/use a local repo because my macports/sources.conf  
>>> points
>>> to a svn checkout. If/when I see problems with ports I'm using I can
>>> fix them there and generate diffs to attach to tickets. A 'svn  
>>> update'
>>> of that directory won't kill my local changes, either.
>>
>> So if I have svn checkout in sources.conf and I do "port  
>> selfupdate" my
>> changes to <prefix>/var/macports/sources/svn.macports.org/trunk/ 
>> dports
>> won't be clobbered?
>> I didn't know that. How would I change back to the macports files  
>> later?
>
> http://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/SyncingWithSVN
>
> It will use 'svn up' to update the working copy, so local changes will
> be kept. Once your changes have been applied it is either fully merged
> so it is not a local change anymore or you will have to merge it
> manually in case of conflicts.
>
> Rainer

Thank you.

// Brad