> On 6. Apr 2021, at 13:10, Marco Beishuizen <mbeis....@xs4all.nl> > wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to git clone the portstree into /usr/ports. /usr/ports is > a separate filesystem so it contains a .sujournal file. But now git > complains "fatal: destination path 'ports' already exists and is not > an empty directory." > > So my question is what to do next? Recreating a new .sujournal every > time a ports tree needs to be cloned is quite annoying.
Like Felix wrote, you clone exactly once and then you only pull for updates. Assuming /usr/ports is empty besides the .sujournal file, I would do: cd /usr/ports git clone https://git.freebsd.org/ports.git removeme mv removeme/.* removeme/* . rmdir removeme git status git pull Note that "Invalid Arguments" errors are expected on the mv command (this could be replaced by a fancy find command, like `find removeme \ -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -exec mv {} . \;`, but this was easier). Also, in case "git status" shows something like "Untracked filed .sujournal", add ".sujournal" to your global git excludes file. Example: git config core.excludesFile=$HOME/.gitexcludes echo .sujournal >>$HOME/.gitexcludes In case you don't want to override the excludesFile setting, alter one of the config files in the default global location $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore[0]. Best, Michael [0] `man git-config` says: core.excludesFile Specifies the pathname to the file that contains patterns to describe paths that are not meant to be tracked, in addition to .gitignore (per-directory) and .git/info/exclude. Defaults to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, $HOME/.config/git/ignore is used instead. See gitignore(5). _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"