Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

Chris H chris# at 1command.com
Wed Jan 2 05:17:01 UTC 2013


> On 1 January 2013 15:17, Alfred Perlstein <bright at mu.org> wrote:
>> On 1/1/13 6:55 AM, Eitan Adler wrote:
>>>
>>> On 1 January 2013 02:54, Derek Kulinski <takeda at takeda.tk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> That said I would totally understand you being upset if FreeBSD would
>>>> decide to switch to git, since despite its benefits that is a huge
>>>> change, and would definitely be hard for people to adjust.
>>>
>>> Just In Case:
>>>
>>> FreeBSD has no plans to switch to get in either the short or long
>>> term.  We will however offer git repositories and first-class cousins
>>> via git.freebsd.org and github.
>>>
>>>
>> Are you sure?  Most of the diffs developers have been handing me lately are
>> of the form a/path b/path so I think they are mostly using git behind the
>> scenes.
>
> Yes.  I use git behind the scenes as well.  However, so far as I am
> aware, there are no plans in either the short or long terms to
> *convert upstream* to git.

Thank God! I'd hate to think that after unwinding years accumulated
CVS process, to rewind it for SVN, only to have to do it again for GIT,
just seems a bit masochistic.

--Chris

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