Using Git for FreeBSD Development

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Using Git for FreeBSD Development

Obtaining FreeBSD with Git
Official Mirrors
Tutorials
References
Historical Contents
Git Working Group

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Using Git for FreeBSD Development

Obtaining FreeBSD with Git

Please see Appendix A. Obtaining FreeBSD in Handbook.

Official Mirrors

https://git.FreeBSD.org is the official mirror for the public, currently has doc and src trees.

The FreeBSD project page on Github has the official mirrors for src, doc, and ports repositories.

Tutorials

 Subversion to Git Migration: Part 1 by WarnerLosh

 Subversion to Git Migration: Part 2 by WarnerLosh

References

 Git Transition Process

Historical Contents

The way of using git to hack on FreeBSD in svn is documented here: GitWorkflow. (Mostly obsoleted by migrating to git.)

A good introduction to Git was presented by UlrichSpoerlein at the Devsummit 2010 in Ottawa.

Git Working Group

In 2019, Core chartered a Git Working Group (May 2019 DevSummit announcement (Youtube); Slides from same, p. 49+) to work out the implementation details of using Git as the primary VCS for FreeBSD development.