From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dugo@xs4all.nl (Jacob Goense) Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 15:19:48 +0200 Subject: [TUHS] A repository with 44 years of Unix evolution gets the MSR '15 Best Data Showcase Award In-Reply-To: <236.1432029856@cesium.clock.org> References: <555A4699.5060107@aueb.gr> <236.1432029856@cesium.clock.org> Message-ID: On 2015-05-19 12:04, Erik E. Fair wrote: > The NetBSD source repository has not changed source control systems > since project inception - we're still using CVS, and the whole thing > can be browsed at anoncvs.netbsd.org. A bunch of stuff is now "in the > attic" (nominally "deleted" from the repository, but so far as I know > that just means it's not fetched by default with an unadorned "get" > command - it's still in the repository archive). > > The history you're looking to collect is available for copy any time. There is a pile of "revision #.# intentionally removed" in there. See http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2006/09/14/netbsd_future.html?page=2 for Hannum's story behind it. Deadly quote "and nobody cares about that early code history any more --so this is all water under the bridge." They are available in a manilla folder through a coughing man in a raincoat if you know in which parking garage you have to look. Not sure what the consequences are if they appear as a pull request for dspinellis's truly awesome unix-history-repo. /Jacob