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I am too lazy to look it up on the mailing lists but a while back I recall ESR contacted certain BSD projects trying to convince them to change to Git. I misto

by gwu78 10y ago

I am too lazy to look it up on the mailing lists but a while back I recall ESR contacted certain BSD projects trying to convince them to change to Git. I mistook it for the occasional incoherent spam that slips through the filters.

zeveb 10y ago
> I am too lazy to look it up on the mailing lists but a while back I recall ESR contacted certain BSD projects trying to convince them to change to Git. They're mostly still on CVS these days, right? Regardless of one's personal feelings about esr, is there any good reason to stay on CVS in this, the second decade of the twenty-first century?
- liveoneggs 10y ago
  a reason (although not necessarily good enough) is that git requires a lot of resources for large repos there were other reasons but the discussion hasn't re-happened in the last 18-24 months
- loeg 10y ago
  FreeBSD's been on SVN, not CVS, since 2008. Many developers use an official git mirror[0] to stage their work before committing. [0]: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd
- jlgaddis 10y ago
  As loeg mentioned, FreeBSD uses SVN. OpenBSD still uses CVS. Why? Basically because they are the ones using it and it continues to work just fine for their needs. Is there any good reason for them to migrate everything to a new VCS, be forced to learn new tools, etc., when what they are using now meets their needs just fine? This is a perfect example of change for change's sake.
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