On 13 May 2016 at 16:19, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org> wrote: > > Anyway, why this information can't be fetched from the metadata? I think this one wasn't addressed in bapt's reply. Since the ports tree can also be obtained as a tar file independent of any VCS, requiring a ports repo in svn/git/hg to obtain the metadata is not viable.