etcupdate, svnlite, documentation etc. following the transition of source to Git

[Warner Losh]

On Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 8:43 AM Graham Perrin <grahamperrin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 02/01/2021 08:47, Herbert J. Skuhra wrote:
>
> >> <
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html>
> >> still describes use of `svnlite` (not `git` or `got`) and, I guess,
> >> might continue to do so for some time.
> >>
> >> In this context, is `cd /usr/src` still true?
> > If you clone the repository to /usr/src instead of e.g.
> > /usr/src/freebsd-current.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> I imagine that use cases will _eventually_ include trios of directories,
> as siblings, for example:
>
> /usr/src/doc /usr/src/freebsd-stable
>
> /usr/src/ports
>
> True: there's the tradition of /usr/ports
>
> however with all three things moved, or moving, to Git it seems (to me)
> sensible to have the source files for ports at
>
> /usr/src/ports
>
> For consistency. A cohesive approach.
>

There's no change. The current preferred way is to clone into /usr all
three repos....

/usr/src
/usr/doc
/usr/ports

One is, of course, free to put things where one wants, but that's no
different than with svn.

Warner