[TUHS] SVN of CSRG Releases

[Jacob Ritorto]

Not to over-state the importance of this particular version control system,
but having this code on github is game-changing; thanks, guys.

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 6:45 AM, Diomidis Spinellis <dds at aueb.gr> wrote:

> On 14/01/2015 03:55, Warren Toomey wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 05:42:56PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
>>
>>> Aren't the SCCS sources for the real history online?  I know Kirk made
>>> them available on his CD, I have them somewhere.
>>>
>>
>> In a previous private e-mail I received from Kirk, he said:
>>         The folks at UC
>>         Berkeley have always required me to track distributions of the
>> SCCS
>>         files as they somehow think of them as still sensitive.
>>
>> which implies that the SCCS files cannot be released publicly. However,
>> the SVN version is a "derivative" of the SCCS files and, on that basis,
>> is publicly available. Go figure :)
>>
>
> Here's another data point: when I asked Kirk regarding the public
> availability of the SCCS repo he pointed me to http://svnweb.freebsd.org/
> csrg/.
>
> At https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo you can find a single
> 1GB repository that integrates many of the snapshots and version control
> repositories available through TUHS and other sources (including the CSRG
> data).  Its commit history starts on Jun 20th 1972 with the First Research
> Edition and ends with FreeBSD 10 in 2015.  Git blame works across all the
> history's commits.
>
>
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