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Using Git for FreeBSD Development
Please see Git Primer in Committer's Guide and Using Git in Handbook. Contributing to edit is always welcomed.
- Contact: freebsd-git mailing list
- Contact: IRC #gitcvt channel on EFnet
Timely News
- 2022-02-09: The vendor/illumos branch was updated and rolled back to its previous state due to some missing commit metadata. details
- 2021-06-08: The vendor/openzfs branch was renamed. Read about the fix in this post.
Official Mirrors
https://git.FreeBSD.org is the official mirror for the public, accessible though https and anonymous ssh
External mirrors have the official external mirrors for src, doc, and ports repositories.
Tutorials
Tips
References
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.