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

[Blair Zajac]

On Jan 5, 2009, at 12:45 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>
> 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.

It doesn't save bandwidth but will save disk IO.

Blair

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