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Aug 1 2025

Using a sparse git checkout to build vuxml files

Leave a Comment / FreeBSD, git, Open Source / By Dan Langille / August 1, 2025

This post shows how I used a git spare checkout to build vuxml files without having the whole ports tree present. In this post: FreeBSD 14.2 FreeBSD 14.3-STABLE git-2.50.1 git-tiny-2.50.1 This came about when recent commits to security/vuxml weren’t showing up on in my host, despite doing pkg audit -f – this was several hours after the commit. trouble told me to check this jail on that host. Eventually I figured out the […]

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Converting a subversion repo to git

This is not finished. It has been posted for review. When this paragraph is gone, the post is finished. I’ve wanted to convert my subversion repos to git for years. It’s never been a high priority. But here we go. First, I created a local temporary and insure subversion repo with a copy of my real repo. This allows me to mess up and not affect the real repo. I’m sure nothing I’m