Re: src: continued use of Subversion for getting updates

On Wed, 23 Dec 2020 11:13:07 +0100, Johan Hendriks <joh.hendriks_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> On 23/12/2020 09:49, Warner Losh wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 23, 2020, 1:48 AM Graham Perrin <grahamperrin_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Warner, thanks for the clarification.
> >>
> >> Apologies for me taking the (rough draft/work in progress) documentation
> >> too literally.
> >>
> > I'm all ears on ways to make the docs better
> >
> > Warner
> >
> > On 23/12/2020 07:01, Warner Losh wrote:
> >>> … This has been a big job with way more moving parts than I'd ever
> >>> thought possible. We've attended to most of them, and are fixing the
> >>> stragglers as the team becomes aware of them. …
> >>   From the outside looking in: for so complex a project, progress seems
> >> remarkably smooth. Thanks to all involved.
> >>
> >>
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> First of all a big thank you for all your time and effort you and all 
> the other people put in this tremendous task.
> 
> For me and i think a lot of regular users that do not push just pull, a 
> simple page with the exact commands to track stable or head is very 
> appreciated.
> 
> Like svnlite update /usr/src replace with git pull .... and so on and an 
> example for head, stable or release will push most people in the right 
> direction.
> 
> I for one (i did not search that hard) can not find these steps very 
> easily.
> 
> regards
> 
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Seconded.
This and the other ongoing today subversion > git threads IMHO need four or more 
new paragraphs in /usr/src/UPDATING and eventually /usr/ports/UPDATING so
persons who for lack of time won't ever get upto speed entirely on how to run git
can have  a copy-paste template command to run for most use cases, here,
equivalents of

ports
cd /usr/ports/Mk
svn up .
 
and 

src

cd /usr/src/sbin
svn up
[[... denotes by default the branch checked out, addl parameters probably ]
as well as 'swn switch' equivalents
and another-destination equivalents

for example

git clone https://git.FreeBSD.org/src.git -b stable/12 /usr/freebsd-src

appeared to start checking out 12-stable to the latter directory
but I had to halt it for lack of time and being new.