Deprecation of portsnap (was: Proposed ports git transition schedule)

[Dave Horsfall]

On Mon, 12 Apr 2021, Peter Jeremy via freebsd-ports wrote:

> Except that git will arbitrarily and randomly decide that it needs to 
> run "gc" - which is similarly extravagant in memory usage.  Last time I 
> found one running, it thrashed that poor VM for 3 days.

Would this be a good time to mention the https://ohshitgit.com/ site? 
Warning: it contains strong language...

-- Dave