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

[Glen Barber]

On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 01:18:56PM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> First take your self OUT of developer mode, and into operations
> and administration.
> 
> Take for example all the files in /etc, these files can easily
> at present often be tracked back to exactly what release installed
> them cause the $FreeBSD$ points you at it.  These files are often
> modified by local administrators, and with out knowing what version
> they started out it is a crap shoot to ever figure it out unless
> the local mods are minor and you get lucky.
> 
> Contractors are some times hired to go in and upgrade or clean up
> after someone else did work, and not having this information and
> telling them to go dig in git to try and figure out the state of
> there system is pretty much a non-started, well at least it is for
> me.
> 

This, IMHO, is a problem best solved with some sort of system
configuration management tool (cfengine, puppet, custom management
scripts, whatever your flavor of Kool-Aid is on that day), and not by
a version control system, distributed or otherwise.

Glen
(Said with my sysadmin hat on)

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