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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.

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.