Bakul Shah <bakul_at_iitbombay.org> wrote on Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 00:15:04 UTC :
> [-9fans, +freebsd-current as 9fans adds a reply-to: 9fans line] > > > On Jan 23, 2025, at 3:53 PM, Warner Losh <i...@bsdimp.com> wrote: > > > > I fail to see how putting code in the kernel is better than just using got > > for the few people that are alergic to git. Even if it is only 1000 lines > > in plan 9, but likely more in FreeBSD and by the way not yet ported to > > FreeBSD. We know got can't crash the system and is small enough to not > > matter, even if it isn't in the base today. > > > May I suggest: > - always ship the *commit hash* for any release or snapshot with its base.txz For stable/* and main builds via PkgBase: I'll note that, for PkgBase, the commit hashes for the "base" vs. the "kernel" need not be identical from what I've seen. In other words, the separate packages for /usr/src/sys/ vs. for the rest of /usr/src/ need not be based on the exact-same commit hash. Releases avoid that via the explicit control of when the releng/*.* content is updated: no update happens between and teh result happens to always match because of that (if I understand right). This seems to be something new for any official FreeBSD builds of stable/* and main . > - src.txz as now (or add commit hash) See above if a stable/* or main context might involve PkgBase build instead. > - this is enough to download a repo (1-deep or whatever), bare if src.txz was > also unpacked. > - add a simple script to download as above. > - people can install whatever git client they want for further work. > > git9 doesn't require any kernel code but on freebsd you'd have to > use plan9port. It is far simpler but has a different interface. === Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com
