FWIIW, Matthew Dillon has converted DragonFly BSD from CVS directly into Git back in 2008, or, more specifically, on 2008-11-26: https://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/

FWIIW, Matthew Dillon has converted DragonFly BSD from CVS directly into Git back in 2008, or, more specifically, on 2008-11-26: https://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/commits/2008-11/msg00122.html https://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/commits/2008-11/ms... It would appear that FreeBSD has switched the src repo from CVS into SVN on 2008-05-31. Sure, Git surely must have improved since 2008, but did it really miss any really important features that have since been implemented back then, or is it just a matter of a much wider acceptance than anything else? It looks like $FreeBSD$ tags are now deprecated, because they aren't supported in Git; I recall these tags have always been the biggest blocker in any VCS considerations for both FreeBSD and NetBSD. TBH, I got the impression that they've never been properly supported by Subversion, either -- you had to install a FreeBSD-specific version of SVN for the tag expansion to work "properly". I still think SVN is the worst out of all the VCS -- it has all the drawbacks of a centralised Git without many of the benefits, plus none of the benefits of CVS. For example, I wanted to have a local mirror on the history of the tree, which is absurdly easy to do with CVS with rsync -- you can even selectively ignore certain parts of the tree like --exclude "…src/contrib/???…/" --exclude "…src/gnu/…/…" (how do type a star symbol on HN?), but mirroring SVN was so complicated and inflexible that I had simply given up after it had used up way more space than the prior rsync mirror of CVS had ever required, and still wasn't even done. I then decided to entirely bypass SVN by directly switching to an "unofficial" git repo once the export from SVN back to CVS was completely deprecated and deleted at one point.