src: continued use of Subversion for getting updates

Theron theron.tarigo at gmail.com
Sun Jan 3 04:50:39 UTC 2021


On 12/23/20 2:01 AM, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2020, 11:47 PM Graham Perrin <grahamperrin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 23/12/2020 00:10, Paul Mather wrote:
>>> … continue to get src updates via Subversion. …
>> As far as I can tell:
>>
>> * for stable/12 alone
>>
> stable/11 as well as the releng branches for as long as the project has
> them under support. I wrote the code to replay commits into subversion for
> the convenience of our users on those branches.

> Current has moved entirely to git. New commits have started up again.
> Stable/11 and stable/12 are there as well, but there are a couple of last
> minute snags that are being sorted out so it will be an additional day,
> maybe two before those start.

What's the projection for when or how the subversion mirroring of new 
current and stable commits will start up?  Can users trust that such 
updates will continue until a git client is adopted into base?

(Or will there be a long-term disruption to the ability to track current 
using tools found in base?)


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