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Date:      Fri, 6 Jun 2025 16:19:53 +0000 (UTC)
From:      "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>
To:        Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-git@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: got(1) in base consideration
Message-ID:  <s268s3r0-1019-q049-8p33-q4q741nqpr01@yvfgf.mnoonqbm.arg>
In-Reply-To: <9f48a955-5f8a-450c-94c1-2a7d9d69ecb9@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sun, 4 May 2025, Kyle Evans wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been toying around with the idea of pulling got(1) into base, but hidden 
> off into /usr/libexec and not supporting it for general usage. The idea would 
> instead be to provide a script or two as a user-facing interface to do the 
> bare minimum to functionally maintain a local copy of our git repos.

Kind-of like csup in cvs/cvsupd times?
With the difference that csup also solved a problem that cvs could not.

That gets me to my question?  In a time when pkg(8) will be mandatory
basically to our users, what does this buy a user that it cannot do
after a pkg install git-lite?

The idea about the scripts is differnt thig, which may very well be
valuable?

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Bjoern A. Zeeb                                                     r15:7



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