On Wednesday, June 19, 2013 11:01:17 am Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> I'm also not convinced svnup in base would be good, because it still
> pulls src directly from svn and that would not be the case with a
> portsnap-like tool. With portsnap code distribution is separated from
> the underlying vcs.

portsnap does not work for src.  (I thought we had already covered that
in earlier threads?)  portsnap only moves forward.  It is a very important
feature for our users that whatever tool they use for source updating be
bidirectional.  In particular it is very common practice to use a bisect
operation to isolate changes responsible for regressions.

-- 
John Baldwin
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