Official git export

[K. Macy]

w far back in time one's repo goes and being
>> able to have some control over views would go a long way towards
>> streamlining its use for FreeBSD.
>
> Utterly irrelevant. A partial checkout won't make git noticeably
> faster, as it is pretty darn fast already. Believe me. A truncated
> history might save you up to 150MB, also totally not worth the effort,
> especially because then your custom git repo has different hashes and
> fetching/merging other peoples branches becomes impossible.
>
> Furthermore, the point with git is to have multiple branches in your
> workspace and switch between them (again, this is frigging fast). I was
> juggling 8-10 branches at one time and have never had the need to create
> a second workspace ('git stash' being the keyword here).
>
> Please have a look at http://wiki.freebsd.org/GitWorkflow and try it
> out!

I've been working out of git for the past 15 months:

https://www.gitorious.org/~kmm/freebsd/kmm-sandbox

I'm afraid that due to time and bandwidth constraints the size of the
initial repository is indeed relevant for many of us.