Though it’s not the default, you can actually tell MacPorts to use Git to sync your ports, at least; see the third part of section 2.3.3 in the guide <https://guide.macports.org/#installing.macports.git>.
Saagar Jha > On Jun 5, 2020, at 16:05, Christopher Chavez <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 6/5/2020 12:32 PM, Clemens Lang wrote: >> or switch to a different source, e.g. git > As a user, I've thought it would be great if MacPorts used git syncing > by default. I have used git-over-https since 2016 when I was constrained > to ports 80/443 by a university campus network. I had found it also > avoided needlessly writing hundreds of MB to the SSD when updating the > ports tree. If GitHub outages are a concern, then I would think falling > back to a mirror hosted by GitLab/SourceForge/Bitbucket/etc. should be > possible. > > Christopher A. Chavez
