FreeBSD moving to Git -- OpenBSD FreeBSD: Why and How

[Zenaan Harkness]

Well, good news for OS diversity fans - FreeBSD is transitioning, to Git that is :)

   FreeBSD Can Now Be Built From Linux/macOS Hosts, Transition To Git Continues
   https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FreeBSD-Q3-2020-Report

      .. - On the Git front, their transitioning from Subversion to Git they
      hope to have a beta repository by the end of October.

      .. - The FreeBSD Ports collection surpassed 40,000 ports/packages.

      .. - As of September it's now possible to build a functioning buildworld
      and buildkernel environment from macOS and Linux hosts. This is done due
      to some CI tools only supporting Linux/macOS and wanting to use them for
      constructing the FreeBSD base system and was sponsored by DARPA.



Apparently even dinosoars can evolve, after all ;)




On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 02:08:56PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> A primary thing *BSD needs for "hip young newbie" attractiveness is
> something less geriatric than CVS as their source code distribution
> system... no matter how secure, stable etc it is, it's $CURRENT_YEAR
> already and I for one welcome our Git overlords.
> 
> There's "conservative, stable processes", then there's simply a lack
> of will to engage the learning curve required to properly learn and
> deploy that which is fundamentally superior in very way (except of
> course, that the commands are different, and from the ultra
> conservative view, that is, in fact, inferior).
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 07:40:17PM -0700, Kurt Buff - GSEC, GCIH wrote:
> > https://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/01
> > 
> > On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 6:03 PM grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > https://sivers.org/openbsd
> > > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21521774
> > >
> > > https://openbsd.org/
> > > https://freebsd.org/