where to upgrade 12-stable now, svn still, or git?

[Mark Millard]

Dewayne Geraghty dewayne at heuristicsystems.com.au wrote on
Sat Feb 13 06:04:52 UTC 2021 :

> The main list we used was:
> 
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-stable-12/
> 
> but that appears dead.
> . . .
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-release/
> 
> suspect also dead.

I should have mentioned this area in my reply to tech-lists.
This part of things is more git based now, probably
meaning more use of https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ to look
at commits/check-ins is needed in order to see the modern
cross-references between svn and git. (Such is not available
from the git side.)

(Older history in svn does not have git references as
far as I know.)

> I suspect that
> 
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/dev-commits-src-branches/2021-January/thread.html
> 
> is the stable-12 equivalent but are incremental patch releases also
> available here?


That covers stable/11 , stable/12 , and stable/13 . But no list
that I know of covers any releng/* or release/* commit activity.

For the git side of things, one has to look at the likes of
branches via cgit (or whatever) via the likes of:

https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/log/?h=releng/12.2
https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/log/?h=releng/13.0

Something like release/12.2.0 seems to be via a tag
on a commit. So https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/log/?h=releng/12.2
lists it but https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/log/?h=stable/12
does not. (There are commits to releng/12.2 after the
release/12.2.0 tag.)

Of course, for 12 there still is:

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/release/12.2.0/
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/releng/12.2/

as a svn side view of things that has the modern
cross references to git included.

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