Git Source Control System

MacPorts uses ​Git as its version control system. Git documentation is also available ​on the web. The Git command line client is shipped with Xcode 4.1 and later, and is also available through MacPorts. Git GUI clients are built in to ​Xcode and ​BBEdit.

Browsing the MacPorts Sources Online

You may browse the MacPorts Git sources online ​on GitHub.

Checking out MacPorts sources using Git

To checkout the sources with Git:

# Checkout the macports base master branch
git clone https://github.com/macports/macports-base.git macports-base

This will check out the base repository; there are several other repositories including macports-ports for the ports tree. Check out any of these that you wish to use as above, simple replacing macports-base with the name of the repository you want.

When pushing commits to the repository on GitHub, git will prompt for a username and password. You need to use your GitHub handle, not your MacPorts one. You can set up ​password caching to avoid being asked every time.