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Date:      Tue, 21 Jan 2025 22:37:01 +0100
From:      Tomek CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net>,  Sulev-Madis Silber <freebsd-current-freebsd-org111@ketas.si.pri.ee>,  freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /usr/src and /usr/ports not git directories ?
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On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 10:29=E2=80=AFPM Warner Losh wrote:
> (..)
> I think we should replace the populate /usr/src from a tarball with.... p=
opulate it
> with a tarball that represents a 1-deep checkout tree at the rev we built=
 the release
> from. This lets users have the source, has minimal overhead and also lets=
 users update
> or turn the shallow checkout into a deep one, etc. A shallow checkout is =
quite a bit
> less than a full tree, though still more than just the raw files. I've no=
t done poking to
> see size comparisons.

Still having tarball of src and ports snapshots in the full release
images is important to have, users could select which one they want to
use, that seems best solution :-)

--=20
CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info



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