Bug 194080

Summary:	handbook should mention svnlite
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	Frank Reppin <frank+fbsd+bugzilla>
Component:	Books & Articles	Assignee:	freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Many People	CC:	berg2839, frank+fbsd+bugzilla, info, mail_me
Priority:	---
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Frank Reppin 2014-10-01 22:46:23 UTC

svnlite was introduced with FreeBSD 10:

  http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=251886
  https://wiki.freebsd.org/WhatsNew/FreeBSD10

The handbook still recommends installing/using 'devel/subversion'/svn:

  https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/svn.html
  https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/synching.html
  [+ maybe more occurences]
  
Which is no bug at all - but devel/subversion comes with
plenty of {probably unwanted/unnecessary} dependencies, depending on
the configuration.
So skip installing devel/subversion and using the builtin svnlite
might be the 1st choice.

Comment 1 Juan Ramón Molina Menor 2014-11-09 15:17:54 UTC

There is also numerous references in the FreeBSD Documentation Project Primer for New Contributors:
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/fdp-primer/index.html

Comment 2 mail_me 2016-08-10 00:45:02 UTC

Also here:

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ports-using.html

There is really no need to fetch the ports using devel/subversion when svnlite co https://svn.FreeBSD.org/ports/head /usr/ports works just fine.

Comment 3 Frank Reppin 2017-08-31 23:43:27 UTC

Current Handbook recommendation is more clear now (chapter A.3.3).
Thankyou all! :)