git: c5f5a82112 - main - FAQ: Update bits about getting a ports tree

[Mathieu Arnold]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 09:24:20AM +1000, Kubilay Kocak wrote:
> On 19/04/2021 10:24 pm, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 01:28:08PM +0200, Mateusz Piotrowski wrote:
> > > On 19/04/2021 12:48, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 10:08:27AM +0000, Mateusz Piotrowski wrote:
> > > > > The branch main has been updated by 0mp:
> > > > > 
> > > > > URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc/commit/?id=c5f5a82112f0de78da06ae73c19e4c99d4bb3111
> > > > > 
> > > > > commit c5f5a82112f0de78da06ae73c19e4c99d4bb3111
> > > > > Author:     Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp at FreeBSD.org>
> > > > > AuthorDate: 2021-04-19 10:00:11 +0000
> > > > > Commit:     Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp at FreeBSD.org>
> > > > > CommitDate: 2021-04-19 10:00:11 +0000
> > > > > 
> > > > >       FAQ: Update bits about getting a ports tree
> > > > >       - Link to the portsnap manual
> > > > >       - Replace Subversion with Git
> > > > Might want to provide other means to get the ports tree than portsnap,
> > > > it is not really supported any more, say, gitup for example.
> > > 
> > > Good point overall but isn't portsnap being brought back at the moment?
> > 
> > Mmmm, this is a separate issue, portsnap may work, it is just not a
> > supported way to get the ports tree.
> 
> It's not? The community is hearing conflicting information about this.

portsnap is fragile, portmgr has had absolutely no success in having
things evolved for years, and while it was great in the old CVS times
where networks were flacky, and CVS was hard to use, there has been
better alternatives, with svn, there was svnup, and with git, there is
gitup.  Both use the repository directly, and don't require a third
party middleware.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold
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