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.
