No update for a day on ports?

[Rene Ladan]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 12:32:52PM +0200, Jimmy Renner wrote:
> 
> Citerar Bob Eager <rde at tavi.co.uk>:
> 
> > On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 19:47:01 +1100
> > Dewayne Geraghty <dewayne at heuristicsystems.com.au> wrote:
> >
> >> Would appreciate if anyone can provide insight as to the 4 git
> >> commands that I need to function, in a manner similar to the way I
> >> use svnlite use.  Git equivalents for:
> >>
> >> svnlite update /usr/ports
> >> svnlite update -r '{$YYYY-$MM-$DD}' /usr/ports/$category/$port
> >> svnlite log -l $N /usr/ports/$category/$port
> >> svnlite diff /usr/ports/$category/$port
> >
> > I got a partial answer. There is a port, net/gitup, that will do an
> > update of sorts. (Note: I was just told 'gitup' and there is an old
> > port, now renamed 'git-up', which is not the right one).
> >>
> >> I'm sure many other users would have a similar usage (and similar
> >> non-knowledge of git)
> >
> > Indeed. I feel this should have been done in advance. And been in
> > Appendix A of the Handbook in plenty of time.
> >
> >> As a minor aside, has anyone stated the reason why the user-base of
> >> base or ports are moving to git?
> >
> > Going with the fashion, IMO. But I will no doubt get shouted down.
> >
> 
> If it is deprecated where do I find the information I need, this does  
> not help:
> https://docs.freebsd.org/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html
> 
This is actually an old URL from before the Asciidoc conversion last
January. The new URL scheme skip the _US.ISO8859-1 part, so just

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/ports-using.html

I will commit an update to document the new Git workflow once the
transition is complete.

Regards,
René