Plans for git (was: Please check the current beta git conversions)

[Steve Kargl]

On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 12:14:08PM -0400, Ed Maste wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Sep 2020 at 02:31, Steve Kargl
> <sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > A short intro on git for svn users:
> > > https://hackmd.io/ML5TSl8mQ5-27B5eqDf7YA?view
> > >
> >
> > ROTFL.  From the "short intro", 2nd sentence.
> >
> > New committers are assumed to already be familiar with the basic
> > operation of Git.  If not, start by reading the Git Book.
> 
> This doc started as a direct translation of the Subversion primer,
> which has as its first sentence:
> > New committers are assumed to already be familiar with the basic operation of Subversion. If not, start by reading the Subversion Book.
> 
> As with the Subversion primer the doc is intended to provide a quick
> reference for day-to-day commands, but not act as a reference or
> introduction to the entire theory of operation of the associated VCS.

Like GCC, which did the svn to git dance at start of the year,
FreeBSD is throwing away a decade+ of corporate knowledge of
working with svn and /usr/src.  What is needed is a succinct
translation of the most common svn commands translated to git.

Checking out /usr/src as user at freebsd.org

  svn checkout svn+ssh://user@svn.freebsd.org/base/head /usr/src

  git ...

Checking out /usr/src without freebsd.org account

  svn checkout https://svn.freebsd.org/base/head ${HOME}/freebsd/src

  git ...

Creating diff against updated head.

  svn update
  svn diff > patch.diff

  git ...

Adding a new file

  svn add /usr/src/libm/msun/src/_s_sinpi.c

  git ...

Committing a change to /usr/src

  svn update
  svn diff <files-to-commit> | more (everyone does one last check, right?)
  svn commit <files-to-commit>

  git ...

-- 
Steve