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From pkgsrc homepage:

> You can checkout pkgsrc HEAD with CVS:

...really? Not even Subversion, but CVS?

The repository of record is CVS, but you can - like many of us do - use either the hg export (https://anonhg.netbsd.org/pkgsrc) or GitHub (https://github.com/netbsd/pkgsrc) instead.

At some point we will transition the repository of record to something else, but it's being done carefully. We want to do it right, and there aren't many volunteers willing help with the work.

No, I was just surprised - I don't know anything about NetBSD (nor pkgsrc for that matter), but I worked with FreeBSD some 15 years ago and there were plans to move to SVN even back then. A quick search told me that the switch was completed in 2008 (a little bit after I left, begrudgingly, for Linux).

What challenges are there in switching to another VCS? Is the difficulty coming from the need to preserve history, or the need to re-evaluate workflows around the repo, or something else entirely?

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