Editing Portal:FreeBSD,OpenBSD,etc (section)

=== Git, ports, and modern development workflow ===

FreeBSD development now uses Git for the source, documentation, and ports repositories. The FreeBSD Foundation’s guide to updating FreeBSD from Git says that FreeBSD’s migration from Subversion to Git changed how users get source, update trees, and bisect changes. It lists `git.FreeBSD.org` as the public source repository location and describes `main` as the development branch for FreeBSD-CURRENT.<ref>FreeBSD Foundation, “Updating FreeBSD From Git,” https://freebsdfoundation.org/resource/updating-freebsd-from-git/, accessed July 3, 2026.</ref>

The same guide describes the documentation and ports repositories as Git repositories as well, with the ports tree using `main` for latest development and quarterly branches for package branches.<ref>FreeBSD Foundation, “Updating FreeBSD From Git,” https://freebsdfoundation.org/resource/updating-freebsd-from-git/, accessed July 3, 2026.</ref>

In this modern workflow, Perl’s role is mostly in ports, packages, scripts, and web infrastructure rather than in the base operating system. A developer working on the kernel or base userland should not need Perl merely to build the system. A ports developer, however, may encounter Perl constantly through CPAN-derived ports, Perl build dependencies, module packaging, and ports infrastructure variables.