Homebrew

[Rainer Müller]

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