Re: Checking out the CSRG repository?

On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 7:55 PM Alan Somers <asomers_at_freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 8:41 PM Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 19, 2019, 7:09 PM Alan Somers <asomers_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 5:38 PM Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 1:14 PM Alan Somers <asomers_at_freebsd.org>
> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Does anybody know how to check out a local copy of the CSRG
> >> >> repository?  I can view it with ViewVC, but I would really like local
> >> >> access.  It doesn't seem to be available on the usual
> repo.FreeBSD.org
> >> >> or svn.FreeBSD.org.
> >> >>
> >> >> $ svn checkout https://svn.FreeBSD.org/csrg csrg
> >> >> svn: E170013: Unable to connect to a repository at URL
> >> >> 'https://svn.freebsd.org/csrg'
> >> >> svn: E175009: The XML response contains invalid XML
> >> >> svn: E130003: Malformed XML: no element found at line 1
> >> >>
> >> >> $ svn co svn+ssh://asomers_at_repo.freebsd.org/csrg csrg
> >> >> svn: E170013: Unable to connect to a repository at URL
> >> >> 'svn+ssh://asomers_at_repo.freebsd.org/csrg'
> >> >> svn: E210005: No repository found in 'svn+ssh://
> asomers_at_repo.freebsd.org/csrg'
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Can't answer this question directly about svn
> >> >
> >> > But I have been using
> https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo.git to look at historical
> sources. https://github.com/csrg has a number of additional repos of
> historical interest, though they are all forks from somewhere else.
> >> >
> >> > Warner
> >>
> >> Thanks for that Github link; it's pretty useful.  Also, I found this
> >> site to be helpful: https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl .  I just
> >> wish I had a better understanding of the relationship between CSRG and
> >> the various releases.  It seems like some stuff got committed to CSRG
> >> yet didn't make it into an official release for years, if ever.
> >
> >
> > TUHS is awesome. I use it too, bit the historical github tree is more
> convenient.
> >
> > CSRG's 4.x series was pretty linear. What didn't make it?
> >
> > Warner
>
> I'm looking at bmap.  When I wrote that email, the earliest released
> reference I could find was in 4.3-Reno.  However, I just spotted it in
> 4.2, which is a much more reasonable time frame (it moved to a
> different file which is why I missed it before).  However, the files
> in question don't even exist in the git branches from dspinellis's
> repository.  I had to find them on tuhs.org.  Am I doing something
> wrong, or are dspinellis's release branches not fully populated?
> Compare
> https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/tree/BSD-4_3_Reno-Snapshot-Development/usr/src/sys/sys
> to https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=4.3BSD-Reno/src/sys/sys


I'm guessing the SCCS -> SVN -> Git process broke files that were renamed
or copied... I've not dug deeper though... This tells me that we need to
send dspinellis some corrections :)

Warner