[Bug 255323] handbook: Discourage use of portsnap, document gitup

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            Bug ID: 255323
           Summary: handbook: Discourage use of portsnap, document gitup
           Product: Documentation
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Keywords: needs-patch
          Severity: Affects Only Me
          Priority: ---
         Component: Documentation
          Assignee: doc at FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: 0mp at FreeBSD.org
                CC: portmgr at FreeBSD.org

portmgr suggests that we update the documentation so that it discourages the
use of portsnap. As a substitute, we can document how to use gitup.

The reasoning behind discouraging the use of portsnap is:

portsnap is fragile, portmgr has had absolutely no success in having
things evolved for years, and while it was great in the old CVS times
where networks were flacky, and CVS was hard to use, there has been
better alternatives, with svn, there was svnup, and with git, there is
gitup.  Both use the repository directly, and don't require a third
party middleware.

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