Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 23:16:08 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com> Cc: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert), chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: siguing into current from a random version Message-ID: <21943.850202168@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 09 Dec 1996 17:13:12 MST." <199612100013.RAA15622@xmission.xmission.com>
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> Perforce has a source code control system that purports to be equivalent > to CVS, but with atomic locking. Last I checked, they were very proud > of the fact that their system runs on FreeBSD, and are giving away 2- > user systems for FreeBSD. They would probably be very willing to donate > a server and clients for the FreeBSD core team, and anyone else can > get their own system, including clients, for read-only access. Oh, we know - one of the founders of this company (Chris Seiwald) even took the time to give several of the FreeBSD core team members a complete demonstration of Perforce. It's been something I've since felt sort of bad about, the fact that we never made use of all the information (and server licenses) he provided us. Our CVS repository meister is also a big fan of Perforce and has been watching it for some time. We've just got so much "invested" in CVS at this point that any change at all is viewed with dread, there are so many things we'd need to update. The CVS-web stuff, cvsup, CTM, our checkin scripts and mailing list hooks, it's a lot of stuff. There's also the question of access control, something of an open question last time we evaluated P4, and we'd need some sort of rcvs equivalent using ssh for the developers before they could use it with the same ease. To be fair, this is probably all implemented now and I simply need to go back and re-read the Perforce docs to find out how to use it. Jordan
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