Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 11:15:42 -0700 From: Jos Backus <jos@catnook.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> Cc: Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial@gmail.com>, George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rcs Message-ID: <CAETOPp0Xaiax4JQ=0jV3W6SAB9x5i5n52_DcCCFo=8UUFH7gTg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5256D819.6060500@freebsd.org> References: <77307DF8-637D-4295-BF47-8742F1552CE8@orthanc.ca> <525503A2.50002@beastielabs.net> <525537F5.1050100@m5p.com> <CA%2B7WWScenHAqiEDcegHU5fyjw63OSC0Ohnn_hqpxJP0YRcv2nA@mail.gmail.com> <CAETOPp1Ng6%2BBKR8hkqmrYajUV51X5-U0wY_FzkrWbKJcXVW1eA@mail.gmail.com> <5256D192.8010902@freebsd.org> <CAETOPp1t3H%2BtUiEsYDJ-pPzh23Y0Qk-dVZjer=Z_beEr0565EA@mail.gmail.com> <5256D819.6060500@freebsd.org>
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On Oct 10, 2013 9:38 AM, "Julian Elischer" <julian@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On 10/11/13 12:34 AM, Jos Backus wrote: >> >> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> 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. Such is the price of progress. I envy people who don't have to learn anything new in order to stay employed :-) Jos > > > >> >> Jos >> -- >> Jos Backus >> jos at catnook.com > >
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