Moving from svn to git for downloading source

[Bob Willcox]

On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 10:20:25PM +0000, Montgomery-Smith, Stephen wrote:
> On 1/6/21 2:10 PM, Bob Willcox wrote:
> > 
> > Please excuse my rather late joining of the party and asking a question that has
> > likely been answered (I've been sick and quite out of touch lately), but what is
> > the proper/best way to download the freebsd source if you have been using svn for
> > many years? Is there some quivalent command to 'svn co ...'?
> > 
> 
> I have limited experience with git.  But this is what I did.
> 
> git clone https://git.freebsd.org/src.git /usr/src
> cd /usr/src
> git checkout stable/12 # or whatever you want
> 
> >From time to time:
> git pull
> 
> If you want go to a particular "revision", you first do
> git log
> to see the list of commits.  Then you do
> git checkout <hash-number>
> where <hash number> is the hex number that appears after "commit ".
> 
> I'm posting this to the list, because people might reply with better
> ways of doing things.  I just "get by" with git.
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Thanks. I'll give this a try on my test system to see if I can get it right. It
does look more complicated than what I've been doing with svn for years. :(

Bob

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