No more ports-cur?

[Andre Albsmeier]

On Sat, 10-Apr-2021 at 14:41:47 -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> On 4/10/21 11:34 AM, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> > Andre Albsmeier wrote:
> >> No more ports-cur since 2021-03-31 (even on ctm.berklix.org). Did I miss
> >> something?
> > 
> > Hi Andre,
> > Thanks, Stuff is missing, I'll see what I can fix & report back.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> 
> ports is no longer available via svn.  It has moved to git.  So until 
> someone switches CTM from svn to git, there probably won't be any more 
> updates.

Oops, I see. Thanks for the information.

> 
> I think now is a good time to switch from CTM to git.  git really has 
> many of the advantages that CTM has.  For example, you can download the 
> whole repository without actually updating your ports tree.  Then it is 
> present on your computer, so you can update the ports tree even when you 
> aren't connected to the internet.  In fact you can switch between 
> different commits, and different branches, very easily.

This is probably all true but for the price of throwing around 100s of
MB for features a typical CTM-user doesn't need :-). For people who just
want to have up-to-date trees, this is all overkill.

A solution might be net/gitup which is quite lightweight but currently
does not work via HTTP proxies (but people are working on it).

	-Andre