Re: /usr/src and /usr/ports not git directories ?

Reply: bob prohaska : "Re: /usr/src and /usr/ports not git directories ?"
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From: Steve Rikli <sr_at_genyosha.net>
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 20:31:07 UTC

On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 09:29:03AM -0800, bob prohaska wrote:
> A fresh install of 
> FreeBSD-15.0-CURRENT-amd64-20250102-3d0a0dda3a7d-274510-memstick.img
> set up without much difficulty and Xorg seems to work out of the box
> on my Lenovo t400s. Both src and ports directories were installed by
> bsdinstall, but an attempt to run git pull in the src directory failed
> with "not a git repository", even though .git entries are present.
> 
> The most visible problem is lack of a /usr/src/.git directory. Can
> the existing src and ports directories be salvaged?

Not exactly answering the question you asked, but when I install FreeBSD
I typicaly do not select src and ports, and instead do a git checkout
of them afterwards.

Cheers,
sr.