HEADS UP: FreeBSD src repo transitioning to git this weekend

[Renato Botelho]

On 23/12/20 15:20, Michael Grimm wrote:
> Renato Botelho <garga at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
>> If you want to switch to a different already existing branch, as svn switch does, you should look at git-checkout.
>>
>> It can be a bit expensive due to the size of src repository so if you do work on multiple branches too often you can improve it using git-worktree.
> 
> If I understand git-worktree(1) correctly I will most probably not need it, because I will only follow one single branch stable/12, and soon stable/13. Or do I miss something important?

You are correct.  You can clone stable/12 now and when it's time just do

# git checkout stable/13

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Renato Botelho