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Branches

  • Help needed with shell scripting
  • Quarterly branches: what’s next?
  • How many ports are there?
  • Getting a link from a package name
  • Where is en-aspell?
  • Committing to a branch when there are slave ports
  • New function for creating a port
  • A single function for creating a new port
  • Copying a port from head to a branch
  • Branches – add a new port automagically
  • Branches are simple, but more complex than head
  • Quarterly branches are available
  • Fetch, Patch, & Extract dependencies and Uses
  • cache invalidation
  • Commits to multiple branches
  • What branches means to FreshPorts
  • Session variables! Almost. Not quite.
  • Multiple branches, multiple repos
  • Adding code, removing more code to reduce duplication
  • Multiple ports trees for FreshPorts
  • Processing the first port commit from svn-ports-branches
  • Tracking port changes by branch – first fix
  • Tracking port changes by branch

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