Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 20:09:16 +0200 From: Gordon Bergling <gbe@freebsd.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: freebsd-git@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svnweb persistence Message-ID: <20201014180916.GA76192@lion.0xfce3.net> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfrUqNY261OuOJSp8Yj4Sn96V6P5u88=X4ow4_V7MUmRyw@mail.gmail.com> References: <20201014174214.GA66478@lion.0xfce3.net> <CANCZdfpNvfQdyKiYG2ANnXJF96cfaE2-SFwA0rjDoX1azUvcZw@mail.gmail.com> <20201014175721.GA73584@lion.0xfce3.net> <CANCZdfrUqNY261OuOJSp8Yj4Sn96V6P5u88=X4ow4_V7MUmRyw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 12:02:45PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 11:57 AM Gordon Bergling <gbe@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 11:44:56AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 11:42 AM Gordon Bergling <gbe@freebsd.org> > > wrote: > > > > regarding the upcoming switch from subversion to git. Is it planned > > that > > > > svnweb.freebsd.org is kept alive? > > > > > > > > There are numerous sources on the web where this host is referenced for > > > > commits. > > > > > > That's the plan for the foreseeable future, but some years from now we > > may > > > turn it off. > > > > > > Warner > > > > Thanks for the good news. Since the source repository has a history of > > nearly > > 20+ years, I would recommended that we keep that CNAME for at least this > > period > > of time alive. Maybe a static version, so that we don't have to keep the > > whole subversion infrastructure intact. > > > > To be fair, it's only 12 years of SVN data (prior to that it was CVS) and > we'll be retaining all the history in git with revision numbers, so we > might be able to do a redirect after we retire. When we did the CVS -> SVN > cutover, CVS was gone within a couple of years (I don't have the exact > timeline handy). > > The data will be available for sure. We'll do our best to make sure the > links work, but if that proves to be too difficult, we may drop them. The > svn server will run for a few years still, at least to the end of 12.x > branch. > > Warner Oh, okay, as far as I can remember FreeBSD was using subversion, I wasn't aware of the CVS history. If the service is getting retired a little script could be used that translate the URI parameters (of the subversin revision numbers) to the new github frontend. I could write this script if nobody steps up. --Gordon
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