FreeBSD Completes Its Transition From Subversion To Git For Development

submited 31 December 2020

The past several days FreeBSD has been working to complete its migration from their development being done with Subversion to instead using the Git distributed revision control system as used by most other open-source projects. FreeBSD's transition from Subversion to Git is now complete.

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