git repositories of ports broken?

[Daniel Hagerty]

    Most of the git based repositories(*) I know of for the ports
collection all seem to stop around March 1st, 2012.  The one at
git://git.freebsd.org/freebsd-ports stops in 1996!

    Have these been desupported, or is something broken?

(*)
git://gitorious.org/freebsd/freebsd-ports.git
git://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports.git
git://git.freebsd.your.org/freebsd-ports