Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

Alfred Perlstein bright at mu.org
Tue Jan 1 07:13:03 UTC 2013


On 12/31/12 7:32 PM, Kimmo Paasiala wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 3:21 AM, Alfred Perlstein <bright at mu.org> wrote:
>>> There are arguments on both sides; some (perhaps you) feel SVN has/
>>> provides more options, others (maybe myself) feel the same can be
>>> accomplished with CVS, and that migration only causes more initial
>>> (and unnecessary) overhead. I'll leave it at that. :)
>> Chris,
>>
>> I think you've gotten to your NYE jubilations a bit early.
>>
>> Sure the same can be accomplished by CVS, the same way a mission to the moon
>> could be accomplished with enough black powder and a sailing ship.
>>
>> It just won't be a pleasant trip.
>>
>> Go finish whatever you're drinking and have a great 2013.
>>
>> When you wake up, go crack a book on SVN and you'll only be living in 2007.
>>
>>
>> -Alfred
>>
> Anyone who has had the "pleasure" of being an admin charge of a CVS
> repository will not want to go back to it after discovering what SVN
> and GIT have to offer.
>
> Just my 2c

Agreed.

Several of our developers used to put in quite a bit of time into CVS 
"repo copies" and other such tasks.  I do not know the weight of such 
things these days, but I haven't seen much traffic about them. I'm 
hoping the SVN reduced them quite a bit.  We had some people who would 
be much more beneficial kernel work, instead doing repository surgery on 
a regular basis for people.  Glad that is over.

-Alfred




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