On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 09:32:35PM +1100, Arthur Barrett wrote: > Amit, > > > CVSNT package is no longer maintained by Debian [1] since it is no > > longer "Free Software." > > > > Thanks for the link. > > Of course it's still free software. Debian were maintaining their own > fork, and had their own copy of the code. Nothing changed for them and > their code had all the security udpates.
Thanks for clarifying. Do you happen to have the link for the Debian CVSNT package? > > > In this case, the *,v* file was useless since rlog failed to parse the > > information. > > CVSNT supplied it's own rlog for this reason. > Aah, understood. > > Specifically there is a *filename* keyword > > That'd be the name of the file at each revision. If you rename a file > (which CVSNT can do, but CVS cannot) then it's important to know the > name at each revision. By removing information from the RCS file you > are simply removing information from your repository history - that > information was valuable and cannot be replaced. > Understood. So in a case like ours where we had to migrate from CVSNT to CVS, what could have been a better option? If CVS doesn't support the *keyword* directive then I guess it was ok to remove it from the ,v file right? Thank you for the valuable information, Amit
