Re: Successor to svnweb.freebsd.org ?

On 3 October 2022 7:27:38 am AEDT, Dan Mahoney <freebsd@gushi.org> wrote:
 > 
 > > On Oct 2, 2022, at 13:20, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
 > wrote:

 > >  > https://cgit.freebsd.org/$repo/
 > <https://cgit.freebsd.org/$repo/>
 > >  > 
 > >  > With $repo being ports, doc or src

 > > You don't need the repo; Just https://cgit.freebsd.org
 > <https://cgit.freebsd.org/> will allow you to choose the repo. I will
 > mention that it defaults to "log", so I always click "tree" to open
 > the desired repo. 
 > > 
 > > Once you are in the repo, you can select a version in the upper
 > right corner of the screen.

Thanks for clues, Kevin.

 > Maybe not a hot take, but I'll say it -- I find cgit less useful than
 > svnweb (or cvsweb) was -- it's definitely not a straight
 > feature-for-feature port (but then, neither is git for svn), and in
 > general, I find the github mirror more useful when I'm used to
 > looking at other projects that way anyway.
 > 
 > That is to say, the default view in cgit is not like what you
 > normally see on github.
 > 
 > https://github.com/freebsd

And thanks Dan.

Guess I'll get used to git, no choice longer term, but svnweb is another reason for me to not hasten past FreeBSD 12; it still maintains history from way back.

Scoff at nostalgia but I respect that, having started with a 2.2.6 4-CD set Trev Roydhouse gave me late in the Fidonet era ...

cheers, Ian