Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2021 09:47:07 +0100 From: "Herbert J. Skuhra" <herbert@gojira.at> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: etcupdate, svnlite, documentation etc. following the transition of source to Git Message-ID: <87pn2nu3n8.wl-herbert@gojira.at> In-Reply-To: <f5ba064c-f606-3514-1dba-3735edd9cf8b@gmail.com> References: <c8ed98ef-8324-5a3a-b4ba-850c669b5080@gmail.com> <87lfdctq83.wl-herbert@gojira.at> <f5ba064c-f606-3514-1dba-3735edd9cf8b@gmail.com>
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On Sat, 02 Jan 2021 09:31:36 +0100, Graham Perrin wrote: > > With the transition to Git > > ========================== > > If it's true that /usr/src is _no longer_ a predictable path to the > source files, then is it still appropriate for users' fortunes to > include this FreeBSD tip? > > <https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/usr.bin/fortune/datfiles/freebsd-tips?id=6b8f0ba8e29699e1184c27e8c72574896fb0a661#n529>; > > It is, still, essentially a smart tip (thank you, Lars) however some > readers who have switched to the `git` approach might benefit from an > additional hint to use option -s > > svnlite > ======= > > <https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html>; > still describes use of `svnlite` (not `git` or `got`) and, I guess, > might continue to do so for some time. > > In this context, is `cd /usr/src` still true? If you clone the repository to /usr/src instead of e.g. /usr/src/freebsd-current. -- Herbert
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