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FreeBSD Ports CVS End of Life on February 28th 2013

• mapleoin 14y ago
  Is there some article/discussion explaining why they went with SVN or a centralized VCS anywhere?
  • ddfreyne 14y ago
    On FOSDEM a couple of years back, that question came up during a talk as well. IIRC, FreeBSD needs a VCS where they can delete changesets permanently, for legal reasons.
  • lcampbell 14y ago
    There's a bit of detail in the wiki[1], you can probably get a better idea by searching the lists (there's likely a bunch on freebsd-current). Normally when someone brings up git on the lists, the common response is simply, "there's already an official mirror[2]". SVN fits the FreeBSD development model -- everything is centralized. Moreover, it can be argued that when the decision was made in 2008, DVCS's weren't as well-known as they are today. The relative maturity of SVN I believe was a large factor in the decision. -- [1] https://wiki.freebsd.org/VCSWhy https://wiki.freebsd.org/VCSWhy [2] https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd
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