Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 15:44:31 -0800 From: bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> To: Steve Rikli <sr@genyosha.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/src and /usr/ports not git directories ? Message-ID: <Z4w835oJIhnuHrwc@www.zefox.net> In-Reply-To: <Z4wPi8UsfO1Mxppv@dragon.home.genyosha.net> References: <Z4vk3009iSwuzG4K@www.zefox.net> <Z4wPi8UsfO1Mxppv@dragon.home.genyosha.net>
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On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 12:31:07PM -0800, Steve Rikli wrote: > On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 09:29:03AM -0800, bob prohaska wrote: > > A fresh install of > > FreeBSD-15.0-CURRENT-amd64-20250102-3d0a0dda3a7d-274510-memstick.img > > set up without much difficulty and Xorg seems to work out of the box > > on my Lenovo t400s. Both src and ports directories were installed by > > bsdinstall, but an attempt to run git pull in the src directory failed > > with "not a git repository", even though .git entries are present. > > > > The most visible problem is lack of a /usr/src/.git directory. Can > > the existing src and ports directories be salvaged? > > Not exactly answering the question you asked, but when I install FreeBSD > I typicaly do not select src and ports, and instead do a git checkout > of them afterwards. Nor have I, in perhaps ten years. I just tried it for curiosity's sake and was quite surprised at the failure. Perhaps the snapshot process is the culprit, as compared to a release. Still, if anybody knows of a potential way to salvage the existing src and ports I'd like to try, if only for my own edification. Thanks for writing, bob prohaska
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