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the_only_law·

Now can we get some of the other BSDs to trash CVS?

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Don't think that's gonna happen with OpenBSD. At least not any time soon.

[1] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=157819616927844&w=2

Wow this entire thread is just unreal to me. I’ve mostly interacted NetBSD and DragonflyBSD people who were mostly helpful and polite even of you asked what was considered a stupid question.

That reply could’ve been worded so much better. The fact that they went with the insult approach is quite off putting.

Theo makes Linus look like Mr. Rogers

Which ones? DragonFly BSD has transitioned from CVS directly into Git back in 2008.

OpenBSD probably has no plans to transition.

NetBSD has been testing Fossil, Git, Mercurial, for about over a decade now, yet somehow as of 2020 the sight is currently set on Mercurial (even though the current Git export is done through Fossil, continuously since at least 2011); whilst CVS still remains the only official master repo. http://wiki.netbsd.org/github/

Why? What are you missing from their current CVS usage that you think might be improved with git? Can you provide examples on their CVS usage that are proper arguments to why is it outdated or should be transitioned from?

Admittedly not really. It’s mildly annoying that CVS clients tend to be rather different across operating systems, whereas the standard git client is pretty consistent wherever I am, though.

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