sysutils/cfs

[Erik Trulsson]

On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 09:25:15AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 09:37:07PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> > On 2011-Sep-07 01:35:54 -0600, Chad Perrin <code at apotheon.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > One thing I've seen come up that I definitely think would be a good
> > > idea, though, is more accessible documentation of the CVS "attic",
> > > though.  I had no idea such a thing existed for old FreeBSD ports
> > > until fairly recently, and still don't know much about it.
> > 
> > Any VCS worthy of the name will retain history for objects that no
> > longer exist because you might want to look at the state as it was at
> > some point in the past when that object still existed.  CVS stores the
> > RCS masters for these deleted files is a subdirectory 'Attic' under
> > the original directory.  The data is only accessible via CVS - either
> > using a local repository or via CVSweb.  As an example, look at:
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/audio/xmms/?hideattic=0
> 
> My understanding is that you are saying "attic" is just the standard term
> for CVS history.  Is that the case, or do I misunderstand your point?

Almost correct. "Attic" is the standard term for where CVS stores
files that have been deleted.




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