Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

Derek Kulinski takeda at takeda.tk
Wed Jan 2 06:18:35 UTC 2013


Hello Doug,

Tuesday, January 1, 2013, 9:30:14 PM, you wrote:

>> 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.

> Is the cvs code going away?

I'm not in any way FreeBSD dev, but looks like yes, it goes away. In
fact last time I fetched sources using cvsup they were outdated and my
understanding is that cvsup was getting the files from cvs repo.

> I ask because I maintain a number of
> local CVS repositories of code for which I am the only
> developer/maintainer.  I also use grep on the repositories to find
> sections of code previously created and removed for future use.  I
> can't bill my clients for conversion to SVN so that cost I would
> have to eat.  I am not particularly thrilled about having to do so. 
> I don't need most of the CVS features.  About all I do is check in. 
> Occasionally I botch up a module enough that I delete it and recover
> it from CVS.  I don't use branches or tags.

Subversion has a tool to automatically convert cvs repos to
subversion. I believe that's how FreeBSD was converted.

-- 
Best regards,
 Derek                            mailto:takeda at takeda.tk

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