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Why still using cvs? There must be some upside that they see
by kzrdude 5y ago
Why still using cvs? There must be some upside that they see
- sneak 5y agoTradition ("if it ain't broke...") as well as general resistance to things that may well be fads (eg github) are hallmarks of people who have been doing serous systems engineering for multiple decades. There are also real costs to switching tools, borne a little bit by everyone in the project. What they have is obviously working okay for them at the moment.
- kzrdude 5y agoGit now being a 16 year old technology, might be worth looking at for some.
- AceJohnny2 5y agoAnd before that, SVN was already considered a straight upgrade from CVS, and that's 21 years old.
- anjbe 5y agoOpenBSD already officially mirrors the CVS repository to GitHub, and contributing patches via mailing list is substantially the same whether they’re created with CVS or with Git. In other words, Git users already use Git to work on OpenBSD.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoAFAIK, net, free, and open BSD are all in various stages of looking. They'll get there:)
- upofadown 5y agoOne big cost would be changing all the documentation ... OpenBSD does that...
- fiddlerwoaroof 5y agoIsn’t OpenBSD reimplementing git so they could use it instead of CVS? http://gameoftrees.org/ http://gameoftrees.org/
- tptacek 5y ago"No mention of openbsd on the internet is complete without a long thread about source control migration." -- tedu@
- IcePic 5y agohttps://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=136724343006024&w=2 https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=136724343006024&w=2