No update for a day on ports?

[The Doctor]

On Sat, Apr 03, 2021 at 11:28:23AM +0200, Guido Falsi wrote:
> On 03/04/21 02:24, The Doctor wrote:
> > 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
> > 
> 
> Thew migration is still in progress, so I guess the repository is in an 
> unstable state. Try again once the migration is done.
> 
> -- 
> Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net>

LEt us know when ready.

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