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Date:      Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:49:20 +0300
From:      Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr>
To:        John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CVS history access?
Message-ID:  <49F233E0.6030803@otenet.gr>
In-Reply-To: <200904240535.37460.lists@jnielsen.net>
References:  <200904240535.37460.lists@jnielsen.net>

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John Nielsen wrote:
> I'm working on a machine learning project and I'd like to use the FreeBSD 
> src CVS commit history as a datasource. Is there a resource-friendly way 
> for me to download some or all of it? Format isn't too big an issue.
>
> I tried a few "cvs history" commands against the anoncvs servers but get 
> this:
> cvs [history aborted]: cannot open history file: /home/ncvs/CVSROOT/history: 
> No such file or directory
>
> I'm not too experienced with cvs so if I'm missing something let me know. 
> The Mailman archives for freebsd-cvs are one option, but I was hoping for 
> more of a direct approach if possible.
>
> Thanks,
>
> JN
>   

It seems history is optional in CVS, and it does not exist (at least
anymore) in the FreeBSD CVS.






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