move port to new category

Blair Zajac blair at orcaware.com
Thu Nov 1 20:17:45 PDT 2012


On 11/1/12 7:50 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
> On Nov 1, 2012, at 21:41, Blair Zajac wrote:
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>> Yes, but we still like to do 'svn copy' to retain history.
>
> Sure, for files that have a history. But in the past, if I needed to, say, add a patch to both graphviz and graphviz-devel, I would have added it to one, committed it, updated, then copied it to the other and committed. Now I don't feel bad about committing both together as unrelated adds.

You're referring to adding a patch in files/?  Yeah, I don't think that level of 
history tracking is important, most important is copying entire port directories.

Blair



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