* To test the latest version of the installation software.
* To give people who would like to run _-CURRENT_ or _-STABLE_ but who do not have the time or bandwidth to follow it on a day-to-day basis an easy way of bootstrapping it onto their systems.
* To preserve a fixed reference point for the code in question, just in case we break something really badly later.
-(Although Subversion normally prevents anything horrible like this happening.)
+(Although Git normally prevents anything horrible like this happening.)
* To ensure that all new features and fixes in need of testing have the greatest possible number of potential testers.
No claims are made that any _-CURRENT_ snapshot can be considered "production quality" for any purpose.
@@ -1840,7 +1840,7 @@
Once in the RC stage, only the most critical bugs found can be fixed.
Once the release (6.3-RELEASE in this example) and release branch have been made, the branch will be renamed to 6.3-STABLE.
-For more information on version numbers and the various Subversion branches, refer to the extref:{releng}[Release Engineering] article.
+For more information on version numbers and the various Git branches, refer to the extref:{releng}[Release Engineering] article.
[[kernel-chflag-failure]]
=== I tried to install a new kernel, and the man:chflags[1] failed. How do I get around this?
@@ -3003,16 +3003,13 @@
[[define-snap-release]]
=== What are snapshots and releases?
-There are currently {rel-numbranch} active/semi-active branches in the FreeBSD http://svnweb.FreeBSD.org/base/[Subversion Repository].
+There are currently {rel-numbranch} active/semi-active branches in the FreeBSD http://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/[Git Repository].
(Earlier branches are only changed very rarely, which is why there are only {rel-numbranch} active branches of development):
* {rel2-releng} AKA {rel2-stable}
* {rel-releng} AKA {rel-stable}
* {rel-head-releng} AKA _-CURRENT_ AKA {rel-head}
-`HEAD` is not an actual branch tag.
-It is a symbolic constant for the current, non-branched development stream known as _-CURRENT_.
-
Right now, _-CURRENT_ is the {rel-head-relx} development stream; the {rel-stable} branch, {rel-releng}, forked off from _-CURRENT_ in {rel-relengdate} and the {rel2-stable} branch, {rel2-releng}, forked off from _-CURRENT_ in {rel2-relengdate}.