Updating FreeBSD From Git

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2021-07-29 09:30:18

With FreeBSD’s ongoing migration to git from subversion, the system for updating FreeBSD from source has adapted. This guide will cover getting sources from git, updating them, and how to bisect those sources. It is meant as an introduction to the new mechanics for general users.

To begin, the source tree must be downloaded. This can be done quite simply. First step: cloning a tree. This downloads the entire tree. There are two ways to download. By default, git will do a deep clone, which matches what most people want. However, there are times that you may wish to do a shallow clone.

The branch names in the new git repository are similar to the subversion names. For the stable branches, they are stable/X where X is the major release number (like 12 or 13). The development branch for -CURRENT in the new repository is main.

The hashes are different between them. For migrating from the old repository to the new one, please refer to https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-legacy/commit/de1aa3dab23c06fec962a14da3e7b4755c5880cf