-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. >
cvs log <filename> works, but I don't think that history has even been available on any system I've ever had access to. There's pretty good info available from the "cvs log" command ... here's a few lines from "cvs log Makefile" from usr/src/Makefile: - ---------------------------- revision 1.114 date: 2005/12/02 01:17:20; author: deraadt; state: Exp; lines: +2 -2 do not enter lkm - ---------------------------- revision 1.113 date: 2005/09/16 12:28:34; author: jmc; state: Exp; lines: +3 -2 use shell-neutral language (in a comment); from ray lai; ok krw@ - ---------------------------- revision 1.112 date: 2005/01/09 20:36:20; author: espie; state: Exp; lines: +12 -282 move cross-stuff into its own file. okay mickey@, niklas@ > Thanks, > > JN > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknyMz0ACgkQz62J6PPcoOlbBACeLN3fD31obO7yEVTDnql8qQ+v VnAAnAjt2yRDr1y+LHfErKgdUX/UcwtW =Nzdn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
