Am Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 07:24:34PM +0100 schrieb Marc Espie: > On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 07:06:22PM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 11:42:08AM -0600, joshua stein wrote: > > > Using CVS and dealing with tarballs is probably pretty > > > ancient-feeling for many outsiders. I don't know that more > > > documentation is really the problem. > > > > > > I personally tend to ignore most ports@ emails that aren't diffs I > > > can easily view in my e-mail client because it's a hassle to save > > > the attachment, tar -t it to see what its directory structure is, > > > untar it in the proper place, try to build it, then provide feedback > > > by copying parts of the Makefile to an e-mail or doing some other > > > work to produce a diff. > > > > I never understood why new ports have to submitted as a tarball. > > Why not accept new ports as a diff which only creates new files? > > It is trivial to create such a diff. > > Give me the magical recipie that does NOT create directories in the actual > CVS repository/is usable without write access to the OpenBSD CVS repo or > a copy ! > > They DON'T create new files, they create NEW DIRECTORIES. > > Unless I'm missing something, CVS makes it NEXT TO IMPOSSIBLE TO DO > without a local repository!
Sounds like a reason to ditch CVS and switch to git.
