converting rmport to git

[Warner Losh]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 4:57 AM Mathieu Arnold <mat at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 10:53:37AM +0000, Rene Ladan wrote:
> > OK, I'll rewrite the script to use the branch workflow. This does assume
> > having an existing clone of the git repository present, but I guess that
> > is a safe assumption if you are a ports committer :)
>
> You really should not to worry about branches, the script could emit a
> warning if it runs on the default branch, which will be something like
> "main" but the script should not worry about all that, it should just
> assume it has the checkout of the thing you need to remove ports from,
> let the user worry about working on some branch or not.
>

A clean tree is the only real requirement, and all you need to check for /
assume.

However, it would be nice to allow for the steps to create a branch and/or
worktree, if desired. There are times you'd want to run this in a mode that
just does it and then you push. And there's times you need to run more
extensive testing / regression. Automating the branching dance would allow
for that. Making it optional would address the likely more typical case of
'I just want to remove this port'.

Warner