ports 2020Q3 branch not present?
Ulrich Spörlein
uqs at freebsd.org
Sun Jul 12 14:14:57 UTC 2020
On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 6:35 AM Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 2:58 PM Rene Ladan <rene at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> They are just like the stable branches in the src tree (or somewhat
> similar), so I think they should be the same, and pulled by default. While
> they are quarterly, the traffic on them is smaller than a typical stable
> branch in src, so it's not a huge amount of extra revisions.
>
> The only way to find the size is to pull with and without them and observe
> the difference.
>
>
portmgr should weigh in on where these branches should end up. Currently
I'm dumping them in refs/heads/20xxQy (not pushed yet, needs a fix),
because having them called refs/heads/branches/2020Q1 is a bit weird as the
"branches" is rather redundant.
Cheers
Uli
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