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Subject: Re: looking for port to clone that pulls code from git repo
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Steve Franks wrote:
> I've got a project to port that doesn't do releases, just puts out the
> git.  I know we've got alot of ports that pull strait from cvs or svn,

No, we don't. We've got some ports that create tarballs from
known-good checkpoints in 3rd party svn repos, and then build the port
around those tarballs. This is what you should do in your case.


hth,

Doug

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