Moving from svn to git for downloading source
Montgomery-Smith, Stephen
stephen at missouri.edu
Thu Jan 7 00:30:44 UTC 2021
On 1/6/21 4:20 PM, Montgomery-Smith, Stephen wrote:
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> 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
The above is all you need. Once you have performed the clone and the
checkout, the only command you need to remember is "git pull."
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