The FreeBSD subversion port
I use git whenever I can but sometimes there are projects held in subversion that I need to access.
I recently built the devel/subversion FreeBSD port. To my surprise I was unable to check out an https repo. Subversion was unhappy and said
svn: E170000: Unrecognized URL scheme for
Who would have guessed that the option ‘SERF’ is critical for being able to checkout an http/https project?
SERF=on "WebDAV/Delta-V repo access module (serf)"
I didn’t. It might work with the 'NEON’ option too, I never checked.
Are there other options I could have used instead?