When will git be supported for ports?

[Chris]

On 2021-04-28 11:15, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> Hi!
> 
>> Maintainer for some ~160 ports, and attempting to fix some
>> bugs. But as I understand it 'git' is supposed to be the new
>> source of truth. While I know svn by heart. I have near zero
>> understanding of git, or for that matter, why anyone would
>> rather use it.
> 
> The 'why' was explained here:
> 
> https://github.com/bsdimp/freebsd-git-docs/
> 
> But, unfortunatly, that text moved somewhere. It's a good
> first test to find out how to recover that text from the git repo 8}
> Any hints ?
> 
>> That said; as I try to discover the new
>> procedures for maintaining ports under git. I see there isn't
>> anything in the porters-handbook regarding the acquisition
>> of the ports tree in order to get started.
>> Shouldn't this be at the very beginning of the ports doc?
> 
> This below should work, and I agree with you: It was hard to find out.
> 
> mkdir -p somedir/ports
> cd somedir
> git clone -o freebsd \
> 	--config remote.freebsd.fetch='+refs/notes/*:refs/notes/*' \
> 	https://git.freebsd.org/ports.git ports
> 
> I'm also trying to learn more git to be able to work on the
> ports tree, but my time is limited and somehow, I still do
> not see the forest for the trees 8-(
Kurt, you're AWESOME!
Vastly useful, and GREATLY appreciated. :-)

Now, if we could only get this $hit in the docs. ;-)

Thanks!

--Chris