No update for a day on ports?

[The Doctor]

On Sat, Apr 03, 2021 at 02:05:45AM +0200, Guido Falsi wrote:
> On 03/04/21 01:35, The Doctor wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 03, 2021 at 12:35:57AM +0200, Guido Falsi wrote:
> >> On 02/04/21 23:16, The Doctor via freebsd-ports wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 04:45:00PM +0200, Guido Falsi via freebsd-ports wrote:
> >>>> On 02/04/21 15:44, The Doctor via freebsd-ports wrote:
> >>>>> On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 08:55:00AM +0200, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> >>>>>> Hi!
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> As a minor aside, has anyone stated the reason why the user-base of base
> >>>>>>> or ports are moving to git?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Yes:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> https://github.com/bsdimp/freebsd-git-docs/blob/main/git-why.md
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Then the question is : Moving forward, how do we update
> >>>>> the ports?
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> The same questions keep being asked even if replied to multiple times.
> >>>>
> >>>> you can use git with the official git repo (once it will be available,
> >>>> migration is still in progress), or reference a mirror on github or
> >>>> gitlab. Some documentation about how to do this is available at [1].
> >>>>
> >>>> If I understand correctly documentation will also be added to the
> >>>> handbook once migration is done.
> >>>>
> >>>> Git is a little complicated but a lot of documentation is available on
> >>>> the internet. search engines are you friends.
> >>>>
> >>>> If you only want to keep /usr/ports updated the easiest tool to achieve
> >>>> that is gitup available in ports at net/gitup.
> >>>>
> >>>> I reiterate, migration is still in progress, the latest available
> >>>> snapshot of the ports tree (at present read only) is via subversion.
> >>>> once migration is done the official git repo and mirrors will be available.
> >>>>
> >>>> There isn't much more to be sail until the migration is done.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Git is ready,
> >>>
> >>> but I use pkg/portsnap .
> >>>
> >>> How does that affect us?
> >>
> >> AFAIK you can't use it anymore. Use gitup. It's almost a drop-in
> >> replacement.
> >>
> > 
> > How do we use gitup in this scenario?
> 
> What scenario?
> 
> Please install gitup and read it's man page, it's straight forward.
> 
> -- 
> Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net>


Results:

gitup -v 1 ports
# Host: github.com
# Port: 443
# Repository: /freebsd/freebsd-ports.git
# Target: /usr/ports
gitup: get_commit_details: refs/heads/master doesn't exist in /freebsd/freebsd-ports.git: Invalid argument

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