ports 2020Q3 branch not present?

[Rene Ladan]

On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 11:36:59AM +0200, Ulrich Spörlein wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-07-10 at 21:24:16 +0000, Rene Ladan wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I noticed that ports 2020Q3 branched is not present in the git ports tree
> > at cgit-beta.freebsd.org
> > 
> > It was branched from subversion HEAD as r541028 on 2020-07-02 12:04:18 UTC
> > The other quarterly branches all seem to be present.
> 
> Indeed, thanks for the report! I changed the location the branches are
> being pushed to and messed this up, actually.
> 
Oops :)

> Now, the big question is whether we want these branches under refs/heads
> so that everyone will pull them by default (rather wasteful?) or whether
> we stick them someplace else, so people checking them out will need to
> add a custom "fetch" line (like we do this for vendor branches over in
> src).
> 
> Thoughts? I'm strongly favoring the latter.
> 

[adding mat@ who is the portmgr-git liaison IIRC]

Hmm, so currently the quarterly (and older releng) branches are directly under
the "remotes" origin, just like master itself. This makes switching between
branches easy, which comes in handy for MFHs I think.

Is there a way to see how much space each of the branches consume? Currently I
have an idx of 141 MB and a pack of 763 MB, not much larger than a single
branch in Subversion (.svn directory starting at 650 MB).

Regards,
René