gitup issues [was Re: No update for a day on ports?]

[Ed Maste]

On Sat, 10 Apr 2021 at 21:34, Peter Jeremy via freebsd-ports
<freebsd-ports at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> gitup walks the destination tree (ie /usr/ports), hashing every file
> it finds (by reading the complete file into memory).  Whilst the
> default gitup configuration ignores /usr/ports/packages and
> /usr/ports/distfiles, it reads and hashes all the files down both
> paths before ignoring them.

This seems like something that should be fixed relatively easily. In
any case there's an enhancement request in gitup's GitHub project for
reducing gitup's memory use in general. I hope something comes of it.