git: 70e64ba44941 - main - release.sh: Update GITROOT URL

[Kyle Evans]

On Tue, Dec 29, 2020, 18:18 Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd at gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
wrote:

> > The branch main has been updated by gjb:
> >
> > URL:
> https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=70e64ba4494190e64ab8faa04d744182d420c275
> >
> > commit 70e64ba4494190e64ab8faa04d744182d420c275
> > Author:     Glen Barber <gjb at FreeBSD.org>
> > AuthorDate: 2020-12-29 14:34:05 +0000
> > Commit:     Glen Barber <gjb at FreeBSD.org>
> > CommitDate: 2020-12-29 14:40:28 +0000
> >
> >     release.sh: Update GITROOT URL
> >
> >     Hard-code the GITROOT for the ports tree to use cgit-beta
> >     until the ports repository is converted.
> >
> >     While here, remove $FreeBSD$ RCS IDs.
>
> So how do I know what version of some file I am looking at
> once it has been dis-associated from a git clone?
>
> Is there some new mechanism that can give me the cadence of
> say, /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf once its FreBSD ID is riped out?
>
> Also if $FreeBSD$ needs to be removed, can we please just do
> it in one massive tree wide commit rather than have this
> random piece wise needless noise in 1000's of commits?



I don't see any particularly compelling reason to strip these tags,
personally. I stripped them from caroot because we embedded them in
generated files and it creates a lot of noise on updatecerts that I do not
need/want, while providing no value to justify the noise for a purely
generated file.