Bug 194080 - handbook should mention svnlite
Summary: handbook should mention svnlite
Status: Closed FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Documentation
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Books & Articles (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Many People
Assignee: freebsd-doc (Nobody)
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Reported: 2014-10-01 22:46 UTC by Frank Reppin
Modified: 2017-08-31 23:43 UTC (History)
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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! :)