From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 24 21:46:38 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2EC61065675 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:46:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@telenix.org) Received: from mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF5AF8FC0A for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:46:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@telenix.org) Received: (qmail 14292 invoked from network); 24 Apr 2009 21:46:38 -0000 Received: from april.chuckr.org (HELO april.telenix.org) (chuckr@[66.92.151.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 24 Apr 2009 21:46:38 -0000 Message-ID: <49F2333D.8060707@telenix.org> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:46:37 -0400 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090121) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Nielsen References: <200904240535.37460.lists@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <200904240535.37460.lists@jnielsen.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 OpenPGP: id=F3DCA0E9; url=http://pgp.mit.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVS history access? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:46:39 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John Nielsen wrote: > I'm working on a machine learning project and I'd like to use the FreeBSD > src CVS commit history as a datasource. Is there a resource-friendly way > for me to download some or all of it? Format isn't too big an issue. > > I tried a few "cvs history" commands against the anoncvs servers but get > this: > cvs [history aborted]: cannot open history file: /home/ncvs/CVSROOT/history: > No such file or directory > > I'm not too experienced with cvs so if I'm missing something let me know. > The Mailman archives for freebsd-cvs are one option, but I was hoping for > more of a direct approach if possible. > cvs log works, but I don't think that history has even been available on any system I've ever had access to. There's pretty good info available from the "cvs log" command ... here's a few lines from "cvs log Makefile" from usr/src/Makefile: - ---------------------------- revision 1.114 date: 2005/12/02 01:17:20; author: deraadt; state: Exp; lines: +2 -2 do not enter lkm - ---------------------------- revision 1.113 date: 2005/09/16 12:28:34; author: jmc; state: Exp; lines: +3 -2 use shell-neutral language (in a comment); from ray lai; ok krw@ - ---------------------------- revision 1.112 date: 2005/01/09 20:36:20; author: espie; state: Exp; lines: +12 -282 move cross-stuff into its own file. okay mickey@, niklas@ > Thanks, > > JN > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknyMz0ACgkQz62J6PPcoOlbBACeLN3fD31obO7yEVTDnql8qQ+v VnAAnAjt2yRDr1y+LHfErKgdUX/UcwtW =Nzdn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----