Re: git: df53ae0fdd98 - main - Remove portsnap(8)

On Sun, Apr 23, 2023 at 06:12:18AM +0000, Piotr P. Stefaniak wrote:
> On 2023-04-23 01:12:43, Colin Percival wrote:
> >  Remove portsnap(8)
> >
> >  Rather than having a tool in the FreeBSD base system for obtaining
> >  the FreeBSD ports tree, users are encouraged to `pkg install git`
> >  and then `git clone https://git.FreeBSD.org/ports.git /usr/ports`.
> 
> With my 64 KB/s downlink a shallow copy of just the main branch takes
> almost 4 hours. What's worse, git has no way of resuming an interrupted
> download.

My internet connection is roughly the same, and full "git clone" always
fails.  However, repeated "git fetch --depth=n ; n++" allowed me to get
the ports tree in a few days, eventually.  I have to use this trick for
any large repo, it migth seem annoying, but it does work.

./danfe