On Sat, 17 Oct 2009, Matthew Dillon wrote:

> 
> :Thanks Peter for your reply.
> :
> :What is the purpose of the .git/ directory in /usr/src at the
> :time the user installs DragonFlyBSD from the DVD ?
> 
>     It should provide a preloaded git repo which you can then just do
>     a 'git fetch' to bring it up-to-date from the internet.  So
>     instead of having to download the entire repo over the net
>     you only have to download an incremental update.
> 
>     I don't quite recall if I created local branches in that repo
>     but a couple of git commands will checkout the master branch
>     or the DragonFly_RELEASE_2_4 branch.
> 
>                                               -Matt
> 

Matt, thank you for providing the perspective on 'preloaded git
repo'.


thanks
Saifi.

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