On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 02:11:10PM +0200, Michael Gmelin wrote: > > > > On 6. Aug 2020, at 13:58, Mathieu Arnold <m...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 12:17:37AM +0200, Michael Gmelin wrote: > >>> We welcome any constructive feedback. All input would be heard, and if > >>> the plans need to be amended, we will come back to you with the amended > >>> plan in a couple of weeks. This process will take some time and hopefully > >>> won't be too disruptive to anyone's usual workflow. > >> > >> What will be the process to bootstrap git? > > > > pkg install git comes to mind. > > > > I obviously meant bootstrapping without relying on binary packages (for > multiple reasons) >_< > > E.g., pulling a tarball (from a github mirror or some other place) using > “fetch” to populate an intermediate ports tree to build git/other > dependencies. Shouldn’t be hard to do and easy to document.
Well, you can download the head of the main branch, https://cgit-beta.freebsd.org/ports/snapshot/main.tar.gz and extract it wherever you like. -- Mathieu Arnold
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