cvs deprecated

[Warren Block]

On Thu, 27 Dec 2012, Garrett Cooper wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 6:50 AM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
>
> ...
>
>> I see a lot of people switching to the target directory first rather than
>> just including it as an argument for svn.  Is there an advantage there that
>> I'm missing?  I've always just used
>>
>>   svn co http://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/9 /usr/src
>>
>> and
>>
>>   svn up /usr/src
>
>    No difference really, other than the cumulative amount of typed
> characters is less in the former form compared to the latter form.

Ah, I see what you mean.  Depends on whether you were going to cd into 
the target directory immediately.

svn up can update multiple local working copies through one command, 
too:

   svn up /usr/src /usr/ports