Re: hg or git tools for building in base?

[nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 07:34:17AM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> from tech-lists on freebsd-current emailing list:
> 
> > As subject - what will there be in base to interact with the new git repo?
> > I mean, right now, for svn there is svnlite. What for git?
> 
> > Shouldn't it be in base before the move to git?
> 
> Relevance of this message here is that NetBSD users will face a similar challenge when NetBSD switches from cvs to hg.
> 
> How will NetBSD users be able to update their src, xsrc, and pkgsrc trees?
> 
> FreeBSD, beginning with current, is readying to switch from svn to git.
> 
> Will NetBSD users have to update pkgsrc tree just before the switch, and hurry up, build and install mercurial so as not to be left in the lurch?
> 
> Also, will current and stable branches, and pkgsrc, all switch to hg at the same time, or will it be current src and xsrc first?
> 
> Tom
> 

There's no plan to have hg in base. You can download src and pkgsrc tarballs
from cdn.netbsd.org already, and update from there.