The optional CONTRIB option to the devel/git port pulls in DocBook as a dependency. It should be disabled when whatever NOPORTDOCS is named these days indicates that people want to avoid that sort of stuff.
A commit references this bug: Author: garga Date: Fri Dec 2 10:35:22 UTC 2016 New revision: 427549 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/427549 Log: When CONTRIB option is ON a good number of extra dependencies is added (asciidoc, docbook-xml) but they are only used to build git-subtree manpage and html doc. Created a new option SUBTREE to make it possible to install all CONTRIB code except git-subtree and remove extra dependencies from CONTRIB option PR: 203606 Submitted by: phk@ Changes: head/devel/git/Makefile head/devel/git/pkg-plist
asciidoc is used to produce git-subtree manpage, what is not considered part of DOCS. I created this new option to make it easy to have contrib files installed skipping git-subtree, that should help
I believe this is enough to consider issue fixed
This had an impact on devel/git-lite as well. It excludes CONTRIB but not the new SUBTREE. Is that intended?