January 26, 2014

As mentioned in my previous post, if FreshPorts is to display commits from every branch, it is going to need one check-out of each branch of the ports tree. Tonight I started looking into that and hit a snag in an unexpected area: name length. I do most of my development work from within jails. […]

Over the past few weeks, I’ve made some progress towards supporting the branches for FreshPorts. Today, I started making the first code changes and I wanted to share that with you as I went along. Finding the messages FreshPorts processes commits by parsing the messages from the mailing list. I think it might be feasible