Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

Chris Rees utisoft at gmail.com
Mon Dec 31 19:57:45 UTC 2012


On 31 Dec 2012 19:52, "Chris H" <chris#@1command.com> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>  The following is hijacked from another thread, which prompts me to
> post this question:
>
> > On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 11:49:06AM -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith
wrote:
> >> (Not sure if this is the right mailing list, but here goes.)
> >>
> >
> > -doc@ is a better choice.
> >
> >> Last night I did a csup to retrieve the whole cvs repository.  I
noticed
> >> that huge numbers of files in doc and www have been deleted.  Is this
> >> intentional, or is it the svn to cvs program not working properly?  And
> >> if it is the latter, are there plans to restore it?
> >>
> >
> > We are not exporting docs from SVN to CVS.  There are no plans to do so.
>
> After more that 25yrs of enjoying *BSD, and all it has to offer. I find
> myself ever so resistant to change -- what with all the maintenance
scripts,
> and procedures I've created/accumulated over the years. As I'm guessing
I'm
> not the only one feeling this way, I'm wondering if there is still a CVS
> that's still current, that I might be able to mirror, and maintain, moving
> forward? Perhaps this is all folly, but this subject has been bugging me
> for some time, and reading this thread prompted me to attempt to address
> it.
>
> Thank you for all your time, and consideration.

I'm sorry, but the exporter scripts were always a stopgap.

Help is available for updating your scripts to use Subversion, please feel
free to ask.

Chris


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