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

On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM Tomoaki AOKI <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp>
wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 14:31:56 -0700
> Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jan 22, 2025, 2:11 PM Tomek CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>
> wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 09:30:09AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> > > > W> I think what you want is
> > > > W>
> > > > W> % git clone https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src --depth=1 -b
> > > releng/14.2
> > > > W> --single-branch fred --bare
> > > > W> % cd fred
> > > > W> % mkdir .git
> > > > W> % mv * .git
> > > > W> % git config --local core.bare false
> > > > W>
> > > > W> This will clone 1 deep into the directory 'fred' and won't
> checkout a
> > > copy.
> > > > W> If
> > > > W> we make this a package, it's 325MB, as you  say. That can then be
> > > extracted
> > > > W> and then you can recover the tree with:
> > > > W>
> > > > W> % git checkout releng/14.2
> > > > W>
> > > > W> which could be done with the pkg file when extracting to /usr/src.
> > > I've not
> > > > W> measured
> > > > W> ports.
> > > >
> > > > I really like this plan. So before checkout .git is 337M and after
> > > checkout
> > > > it is 975M, which is made by actual sources + .git.
> > > >
> > > > Let's go forward with shipping this bare clone + optional checkout
> for
> > > > 15.0-RELEASE.  We can ask if user wants to do the checkout, or just
> keep
> > > > /usr/src/.git during the install process.  For upgrades, we will just
> > > > write new full /usr/src that includes .git on top of 14.x-RELEASE.
> That
> > > > will consume +50% more space on upgraded installations.  I'm pretty
> sure
> > > > this is fine for those people who do install /usr/src, they already
> ain't
> > > > doing a minimal installation.  We will also put this in RELNOTES.
> > >
> > > Very cool, thanks folks! :-)
> > >
> > > One question, would that imply git in base? :-)
> > >
> >
> > Imply? No.
> >
> > Warner
>
> Can it be achieved by net/gitup, which is BSD2CLAUSE licensed?
> If yes, is there any plan to pull it into base?
>

no. Maybe got will work, but these will be in git-native format.


> I've never tried it, as I'm not enouch sure it works sanely with local
> deep-cloned repo, even on stepping back to normal git.
>
> Another candidate could be devel/got (Game of Tree), which I've not yet
> tried, too.
>

I think that works with git repos, but with different CLI.


> Anyway, having updating tool (as was csup for CVS and svnlite for
> Subversion) in base would be nice. IIRC, Subversion had the same
> annoyance with git, but cannot recall clearly about how CVS was.
> Would have been the same, maybe.
>

It's really hard to beat git fetch.

Warner


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> Tomoaki AOKI    <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp>
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