From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 10 16:38:58 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FF84B36 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2013 16:38:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from vps1.elischer.org (vps1.elischer.org [204.109.63.16]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 595F529B9 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2013 16:38:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jre-mbp.elischer.org (ppp121-45-246-96.lns20.per2.internode.on.net [121.45.246.96]) (authenticated bits=0) by vps1.elischer.org (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id r9AGcqrf046990 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 10 Oct 2013 09:38:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <5256D819.6060500@freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 00:38:49 +0800 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jos Backus Subject: Re: rcs References: <77307DF8-637D-4295-BF47-8742F1552CE8@orthanc.ca> <525503A2.50002@beastielabs.net> <525537F5.1050100@m5p.com> <5256D192.8010902@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: Kimmo Paasiala , George Mitchell , freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 16:38:58 -0000 On 10/11/13 12:34 AM, Jos Backus wrote: > On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Julian Elischer > wrote: > > On 10/9/13 11:59 PM, Jos Backus wrote: > > [snip] > > OK, but please, can we replace RCS with Fossil in 11 then? > That adds a real > improvement to FreeBSD while giving people plenty of time to > prepare. > > can fossil read rcs files? and how big is it compared to RCS? > > > It seems there's some thought on importing CVS repos but according > to 'fossil help import', only the git fast-export format is supported. > In practice this means you'd loose history, yes. But it's not hard > to keep the old RCS files somewhere else in case that history is needed. > > http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/wiki?name=Import+CVS+Repositories > > I just built devel/fossil and it yields a single binary, > /usr/local/bin/fossil which clocks in at 1.8M. Given all the > functionality it provides (plus it is in a similar class as git, see > http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/tip/www/fossil-v-git.wiki), > I think that's a steal. > > It was started by the author of SQlite. If we require some kind of > version control system in the base that's powerful, well-maintained > and BSD-licensed, this really seems like a no-brainer. well since people expect RCS.. it is not a no brainer. you are asking people to learn a whole new tool for functionality that is currently very simple.. edit file ci -l file add comment. > > Jos > -- > Jos Backus > jos at catnook.com