[OpenAFS-devel] status of OS X Tiger support

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Friday, September 02, 2005 19:56:39 -0500 Troy Benjegerdes 
<hozer@hozed.org> wrote:

>> >> The only real issue with getting a diff is the lack of a branchpoint
>> >> tag when the tiger branch was created. Shouldn't be that hard to deal
>> >> with, I can't imagine much else was committed the day it was branched.
>> >
>> > What would be the best way to generate a diff? Is it even worth trying
>> > to use the CVS merge functionality?  (I'm fishing for some suggested
>> > CVS commands to try)
>>
>> Find the first diff on the branch, then diff the head of the branch
>> against that date using cvs rdiff, probably.
>
> Would anyone object if I ran a tool like tailor
> ( http://www.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/Tailor )
> to attempt to convert the openafs cvs repository to another version
> control system?
>
> I'm guessing it would be 'bad' to run said tool using the anoncvs
> server.. can I copy (or use via afs directly) the
> '/afs/grand.central.org/project/openafs/cvs/openafs' repository?

You're welcome to convert it to whatever you want for your own purposes. 
Just don't expect us to switch version control systems overnight because 
you think you've done all the work for us.  There are quite a few custom 
tools in use for managing deltas, making releases, etc, which built on CVS.

You should also be aware that the AFS path to which you refer is only a 
copy of the real repository.  Nominally it gets updated around 7:00am every 
day, but it happens some ways into the process (after the mailing list 
archives), so it may be a bit later than that.  Also, it's a replicated 
volume, and the RO copies don't get released every day, so if you really 
want something up-to-date, you'll want to look at the read/write copy.


-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+@cmu.edu>
   GRAND.CENTRAL.ORG/OpenAFS.ORG postmaster, webmaster, etc
   Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA