How many use git to update? My surprise was when my installation by internet did not include the ports section. I then read the man and it shows a line to update the port using git but does not say that the user has to cd to the /usr.
This does not really answer your question, but what I do is:
1. delete ports (don't miss the dotfiles. And you may keep /usr/ports/distfiles/)
2. then get a new ports tree with gitup(1)
Since I don't use git (too complex/complicated/strange to use for me/my needs) it was overkill for my sit just for having it only to get (new) ports trees. So I use gitup. It just does the job.
Ok. The git was in the man pages so it was the only help I got. No question, just that it did not say to move to the directory. So I had to re-install FreeBSD15.
Are you using ZFS? If so I think/usr/ports is a dataset, not a simple directory.
git/gitup are used to create a ports source tree and build from the source.
Is that your intention?"
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