how to add v2.4.1 tag to .git/ dir
Saifi Khan
saifi.khan at datasynergy.org
Mon Oct 19 05:17:34 PDT 2009
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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