git: 70e64ba44941 - main - release.sh: Update GITROOT URL

[Glen Barber]

On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 06:36:45PM -0600, Kyle Evans wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2020, 18:18 Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd at gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > > The branch main has been updated by gjb:
> > >
> > > URL:
> > https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=70e64ba4494190e64ab8faa04d744182d420c275
> > >
> > > commit 70e64ba4494190e64ab8faa04d744182d420c275
> > > Author:     Glen Barber <gjb at FreeBSD.org>
> > > AuthorDate: 2020-12-29 14:34:05 +0000
> > > Commit:     Glen Barber <gjb at FreeBSD.org>
> > > CommitDate: 2020-12-29 14:40:28 +0000
> > >
> > >     release.sh: Update GITROOT URL
> > >
> > >     Hard-code the GITROOT for the ports tree to use cgit-beta
> > >     until the ports repository is converted.
> > >
> > >     While here, remove $FreeBSD$ RCS IDs.
> >
> > So how do I know what version of some file I am looking at
> > once it has been dis-associated from a git clone?
> >
> > Is there some new mechanism that can give me the cadence of
> > say, /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf once its FreBSD ID is riped out?
> >
> > Also if $FreeBSD$ needs to be removed, can we please just do
> > it in one massive tree wide commit rather than have this
> > random piece wise needless noise in 1000's of commits?
> 
> 
> 
> I don't see any particularly compelling reason to strip these tags,
> personally. I stripped them from caroot because we embedded them in
> generated files and it creates a lot of noise on updatecerts that I do not
> need/want, while providing no value to justify the noise for a purely
> generated file.

They are not used/updated, so why keep a tag that does not expand to any
useful information?

Glen

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