HEADS UP: FreeBSD src repo transitioning to git this weekend

[Warner Losh]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 12:01 PM Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org>
wrote:

>
>
> On 12/16/20 7:46 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > The FreeBSD project will be moving it's source repo from subversion to
> git
> > starting this this weekend. The docs repo was moved 2 weeks ago. The
> ports
> > repo will move at the end of March, 2021 due to timing issues.
> >
> > The short version is that we're switching the version control we're
> using.
> > This switch will preserve much of the current FreeBSD development
> workflow.
> > After the switch, the subversion repo will become almost read-only. All
> > future work will be done in git, however as a transition aide we'll be
> > replaying the MFCs to stable/11, stable/12 and the related releng
> branches
> > for the life of those branches.
> >
> > For more detailed information, please see
> > https://github.com/bsdimp/freebsd-git-docs/ for the current
> documentation.
> >
> > Please see https://wiki.freebsd.org/git for the latest detailed schedule
> > (please note that this schedule is subject to change).
> >
> > Warner
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>
> One question I didn't see in the (excellent!) docs is whether we should
> be PGP-signing commits or not. Is that encouraged?
>

We've not started doing that in general. I don't think signing would cause
issues, but since it is a bit of an unknown, we've not taken a position on
this.

Warner (on behalf of the git working group)