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From: Steve Wills <swills@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] Planned deprecation of portsnap
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Hi,

On 8/5/20 6:17 PM, Michael Gmelin wrote:
> 
> 
> What will be the process to bootstrap git?
> 

There are several options:

1. Install the git package provided by the FreeBSD project
2. Use svnlite to checkout a ports tree. (There will be git -> svn 
replication.
3. Download a tar of the ports tree either from:
     https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/ports/ports/

or cgit.

Steve