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Re:Retguard: An improved stack protector for OpenBSD by sthen on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @03:48PM (#17250455)
If you can say "easily" for this, you can't have tried actually importing the OpenBSD CVS repository into git. cvs2gitdump doesn't do too bad of a job, but doesn't attempt tags and branches. I haven't found another conversion tool that gets anywhere close.
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Re:Retguard: An improved stack protector for OpenBSD by gmfawcett on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @09:22PM (#17252521)
I'm not suggesting that CVS to Git is easy. I'm just saying that Github doesn't present any kind of barrier to adoption of Git (in any project, not just OpenBSD).
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Re:Retguard: An improved stack protector for OpenBSD by nameiscubanpete on Thursday June 07, 2018 @03:13PM (#17259168)
It's a PITA for any reasonably large/old CVS repo. Partly because CVS is fundamentally broke.
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