HEADS UP: FreeBSD src repo transitioning to git this weekend

[Warner Losh]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 1:08 PM bob prohaska <fbsd at www.zefox.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 11:44:27AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> >
> > 'git config pull.ff only ' is the safest for that scenario. It will
> ensure
> > that you don't accidentally wind up with a polluted stream. You'll know
> > your local copy is always the same as upstream.
>
> Thanks, that makes two votes for pull.ff only. Done.
>
> Is it possible to use an old repository cloned back when the
> change to git was first announced and last updated around
> Sept. 25th, or should I start with a fresh clone? All tries
> at updating my old copy report it's up to date, which can't
> possibly be true. It doesn't look easy to recover the original
> URL, nor the actual date of the last pull command.
>

You're better off with a fresh copy. Since September a number of issues
have been discovered requiring hashes to change again.

Warner