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Re: how to add v2.4.1 tag to .git/ dir


From: Dmitri Nikulin <dnikulin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:02:38 +1100

On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Matthew Dillon
<dillon@apollo.backplane.com> 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.

Isn't "git pull" preferable if the user does not need to review or
merge changes?

-- 
Dmitri Nikulin

Centre for Synchrotron Science
Monash University
Victoria 3800, Australia



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