I started using Darwin Ports when tools like hping3 and ctags didn’t work quite right on OS X. For example, the berkeley packet filter on OS X is totally different from the one on Linux, so hping3 wouldn’t compile correctly. Also, ctags in OS X doesn’t have the -R flag for recursion.
With Darwin Ports, I can install libraries and executables that don’t work quite right on OS X but work great on Linux.
I just ran a benchmark on merging files using Eclipse which then calls subversion and running subversion manually on a 28MB repository.
The results are interesting.
svn merge destination_url@HEAD source_url@HEAD destination_folder
took exactly 7 minutes
Using a subversion merge in eclipse on the same repo and revision took 10 minutes.
Take away: use svn merge on the command-line.
Ya, I’d love to go back to using git.