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Date:      Fri, 2 Apr 2021 15:16:53 -0600
From:      The Doctor <doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca>
To:        Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>
Cc:        Kurt Jaeger <pi@freebsd.org>, Dewayne Geraghty <dewayne@heuristicsystems.com.au>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: No update for a day on ports?
Message-ID:  <YGeJxftHiYncV8B2@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca>
In-Reply-To: <405a8bca-33e9-77ca-14d9-80761ac505cc@madpilot.net>
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On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 04:45:00PM +0200, Guido Falsi via freebsd-ports wrote:
> On 02/04/21 15:44, The Doctor via freebsd-ports wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 08:55:00AM +0200, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >>> As a minor aside, has anyone stated the reason why the user-base of base
> >>> or ports are moving to git?
> >>
> >> Yes:
> >>
> >> https://github.com/bsdimp/freebsd-git-docs/blob/main/git-why.md
> >>
> > 
> > Then the question is : Moving forward, how do we update
> > the ports?
> > 
> 
> The same questions keep being asked even if replied to multiple times.
> 
> you can use git with the official git repo (once it will be available, 
> migration is still in progress), or reference a mirror on github or 
> gitlab. Some documentation about how to do this is available at [1].
> 
> If I understand correctly documentation will also be added to the 
> handbook once migration is done.
> 
> Git is a little complicated but a lot of documentation is available on 
> the internet. search engines are you friends.
> 
> If you only want to keep /usr/ports updated the easiest tool to achieve 
> that is gitup available in ports at net/gitup.
> 
> I reiterate, migration is still in progress, the latest available 
> snapshot of the ports tree (at present read only) is via subversion. 
> once migration is done the official git repo and mirrors will be available.
> 
> There isn't much more to be sail until the migration is done.
>

Git is ready,

but I use pkg/portsnap .

How does that affect us?

> 
> [1] https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/committers-guide/#git-primer
> 
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> Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>
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