> Kudos to Stefan for keeping portmaster relevant and up-to-date.
> But I never understood the appeal of portsnap. What's the advantage over

> svnlite co ...
> cd /usr/ports; make update

> This mechanism is in the base system, so an extra tool demands some
> justification ;-)

> Kind regards,
> Patrick

> punkt.de GmbH
> Patrick M. Hausen

Better yet, I built the full subversion from FreeBSD ports and NetBSD pkgsrc so 
am able to use from either FreeBSD or NetBSD.

But the useful days of svnlite or svn with FreeBSD with ports tree seem to end 
with the migration to git scheduled for the end of next March; already ended 
for FreeBSD doc and current src trees.

I guess svnlite will be dropped from FreeBSD when it will no longer be usable.

Any way portsnap can be updated to deal with a git repository?

I switched from portsnap to subversion following FreeBSD's switch from csup to 
subversion for security reasons in summer 2012 (to the best of my memory).

I figured if I needed subversion to update src and doc trees, may as well also 
use it with ports tree: one-stop shopping.

Tom

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