Request for feedback: how many of you still use cvs-cur?

Mon Dec 31 17:52:03 UTC 2012

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Given yesterday's problems with cvs-cur (see below), I want to know
how much effort I should expend on fixing it.  If everyone is now
switched to svn-cur, I won't put any effort into it.  So how many of
you are still using cvs-cur?

On 12/31/2012 12:18 AM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> Tonight cvs-cur didn't create a delta.  The reason is that cvsup 
> deleted most of the contents of "www" without putting them into
> any kind of "Attic."  The program that generates the delta only
> allows up to 2500 files to be deleted in any one delta.  Presumably
> this is to avoid problems if huge numbers of files are deleted
> accidentally at the other end.  And this is quite likely what
> really happened.
> 
> I would like to encourage people to move to svn-cur.  I have been 
> testing it for quite a while now, and it seems to be working very
> well.
> 
> cvs-cur is a rather hard set of deltas to maintain, particularly
> now that FreeBSD is no longer based upon cvs.  Just in terms of
> generating deltas, it takes about 2 hours to create.  Whereas the
> typical svn-cur delta takes less than a minute to create (the
> really big ones take at most 5 minutes to create).
> 
> Also, cvs-cur is hard to maintain because it is the most
> troublesome. As I have said, I plan to get rid of cvs-cur around
> the end of February.  And when it goes I will be very relieved.
> 
> In the meantime, I really don't know what caused the last
> breakage, and I cannot predict if it will fix itself tomorrow, or
> whether it will remain broken for quite a while.  As I said, I
> don't think the problem is at my end,
> 
> Thanks, Stephen _______________________________________________ 
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