HEADS UP: FreeBSD src repo transitioning to git this weekend

[Mark Millard]

On 2020-Dec-22, at 13:06, bob prohaska <fbsd at www.zefox.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 09:34:25PM +0100, Ronald Klop wrote:
>> 
>> what does "pkg install git" do for you? NB: I use "pkg install git-lite".
>> Prevents about 1000 dependencies.
>> 
> 
> That seems to have worked. It reported something about package management
> not being installed, but after a prompt installed pkg-static and set
> up a version of git which seems to run. Svnlite had been working without
> this step..... 
> 
> This is for a Pi2B v 1.1, arm v7 only.

Ahh. As far as I know armv7 ports have been building right along. It was
arm64 that had the old build system fail as I understand.

> Using the "mini git primer" at https://hackmd.io/hJgnfzd5TMK-VHgUzshA2g
> I tried to clone stable/12 expecting that the -beta would be gone.
> 
> It looks as if I'm still jumping the gun. Although 
> cgit.freegbsd.org replies to ping, using
> 
> bob at www:/usr % git clone cgit.freebsd.org -b stable/12 freebsd-src
> 
> reports:
> 
> fatal: repository 'cgit.freebsd.org' does not exist
> 
> This is just a rehearsal, so I can wait, but if I've 
> made other mistakes please point them out.

cgit.freebsd.org is not for getting clones from, just like svnweb.freebsd.org
was not for getting svn from.

Using main as an example, not stable/12 . . .

The bottom of the page https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/ shows 3 URL's for
use in cloning src:

Clone
https://git.FreeBSD.org/src.git
anongit at git.FreeBSD.org:src.git
git at gitrepo.FreeBSD.org:src.git

The last two are not explicit about notation like ssh: prefixes.

I cloned FreeBSD's src.git via:

git clone -o freebsd --config remote.freebsd.fetch='+refs/notes/*:refs/notes/*' ssh://anongit@git.freebsd.org/src.git freebsd-src

Other than using the ssh: style, I got the command notation from
part of:

https://github.com/bsdimp/freebsd-git-docs/blob/main/src-cvt.md

The remote.freebsd.fetch related material allows for finding the svn version
numbers for the older content.

Checking out stable/12 from the clone should be possible after the above, but
that is not what I've been doing.

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