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Comment by philsnow | Hacker News Reader

I'm `cvs get`ting as fast as I can to read the rest of sys_fork.c to sate my curiosity, but CVS incredibly slow. I'm spoiled by how git packs the repo.

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turned out to be way faster just to grab http://mirrors.sonic.net/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/sys.tar.gz , if anybody else wants to poke around and doesn't want to wait for cvs.

You can also view the source on the cvs web mirror: http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/

Sounds like you're doing something unnecessarily more complicated than this:

$ time cvs -d anoncvs@anoncvs1.ca.openbsd.org:/cvs export -rHEAD src/sys/kern/kern_fork.c

U src/sys/kern/kern_fork.c

    0m2.73s real     0m0.06s user     0m0.04s system

Yep, I was grabbing `src` instead of `src/sys/kern/kern_fork.c`. I've completely forgotten how to CVS, and I'm okay with that.

Perhaps you'll like this, then: https://github.com/ustuehler/git-cvs

What are the reasons why CVS is still in use?

  1. it works
  2. they're used to it
  3. there isn't enough reason to change
  4. lots of infrastructure would need rebuilt if they changed

Because we're already too busy with porting our code base to Ruby.

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