Add explanation of branches to the ports(7) man page.
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- rS344021: Add explanation of branches to the ports(7) man page.
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| 81–83 ↗ | (On Diff #53784) | What 'quarterly' directory do you mean here? The subdirectory in the SVN repo is 'branches', like so: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/branches/ There's a 'quarterly' directory on the pkg repos. |
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| 69 ↗ | (On Diff #53784) | The quarterly branches aren't necessarily 'better tested' than ports HEAD. They're just a slower moving target: instead of essentially daily updates with HEAD, you only get updates once every three months or whenever there's a security fix or a significant fix that eg. takes something from not-working to working. To put it another way: there's no extra QA gets done around branching each quarter. In fact, certain intrusive changes may be held from implementation until a quarter day so that the diff between HEAD and quarterly can be kept workably small. |