On Tue, 4 Aug 2020 14:43:20 -0400 Steve Wills swi...@freebsd.org said
We are planning to deprecate use of portsnap in ports.
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Makes sense to me. Thank you. :-)
* Portsnap doesn't seem to save disk space compared to svn or git, if
you count the metadata (stored in /var/db/portsnap by default) and you
do an apples-to-apples comparison of svn or git without history and
ignoring possible ZFS compression. That is, you use "svn export" or git
"clone --depth 1", you see this disk usage:
342M svnexport
426M git
477M portsnap
* Portsnap also doesn't work offline which git does. With git, you can
also easily add the history by running "git pull --unshallow"
* This migration away from portsnap fits well with the planned migration
to git.
Please tell me that this doesn't mean a
[HEADS UP] Planned deprecation of subversion
is on the horizon.
--Chris
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