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Date:      Tue, 01 Jan 2013 22:39:13 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <50E3D611.6050109@mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <401FC04D-4A10-490B-BE89-D9FBE4C99583@lafn.org>
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On 1/1/13 9:30 PM, Doug Hardie wrote:
> On 1 January 2013, at 21:16, Chris H wrote:
>
>>> On 1 January 2013 15:17, Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> wrote:
>>>> On 1/1/13 6:55 AM, Eitan Adler wrote:
>>>>> On 1 January 2013 02:54, Derek Kulinski <takeda@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.
> Is the cvs code going away?  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.
>

Not sure I understand your question, you will be able to continue to use 
CVS from ports if you need the CVS binary.

If you want FreeBSD to continue to export the FreeBSD project code in 
CVS form, that may be over or ending soon.

-Alfred



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