No update for a day on ports?

[Mark Millard]

On 2021-Apr-2, at 17:41, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote:

> The Doctor doctor at doctor.nl2k.ab.ca wrote on
> Sat Apr 3 00:27:42 UTC 2021 :
> 
> 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
> 
> When I look at:
> 
> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/
> 
> and look at the popup for selecting a branch
> I see a "main" but do not see a "master".
> 
> By contrast when I look at:
> 
> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports-legacy/
> 
> and look at the popup for selecting a branch
> I see a "master" but do not see a "main".
> 
> It looks like the your gitup is configured for
> before the conversion, when only the combination:

One aspect of the above sentence is poor: which
"conversion"? It might not be the current
svn to git one one. For all I know
/freebsd/freebsd-ports-legacy/ could have existed
under that naming for a while and
/freebsd/freebsd-ports/ could have been tracking
svn over the same time frame.

> /freebsd/freebsd-ports.git
> refs/heads/master
> 
> existed. Since then the old /freebsd/freebsd-ports.git
> was effectively renamed to /freebsd/freebsd-ports-legacy/
> and a new /freebsd/freebsd-ports/ was created that used
> "main" instead of "master".


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