Checking out the CSRG repository?

[Alan Somers]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 5:38 PM Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 1:14 PM Alan Somers <asomers at freebsd.org> wrote:
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>> Does anybody know how to check out a local copy of the CSRG
>> repository?  I can view it with ViewVC, but I would really like local
>> access.  It doesn't seem to be available on the usual repo.FreeBSD.org
>> or svn.FreeBSD.org.
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>> $ svn checkout https://svn.FreeBSD.org/csrg csrg
>> svn: E170013: Unable to connect to a repository at URL
>> 'https://svn.freebsd.org/csrg'
>> svn: E175009: The XML response contains invalid XML
>> svn: E130003: Malformed XML: no element found at line 1
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>> $ svn co svn+ssh://asomers@repo.freebsd.org/csrg csrg
>> svn: E170013: Unable to connect to a repository at URL
>> 'svn+ssh://asomers@repo.freebsd.org/csrg'
>> svn: E210005: No repository found in 'svn+ssh://asomers@repo.freebsd.org/csrg'
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> Can't answer this question directly about svn
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> But I have been using https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo.git to look at historical sources. https://github.com/csrg has a number of additional repos of historical interest, though they are all forks from somewhere else.
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> Warner

Thanks for that Github link; it's pretty useful.  Also, I found this
site to be helpful: https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl .  I just
wish I had a better understanding of the relationship between CSRG and
the various releases.  It seems like some stuff got committed to CSRG
yet didn't make it into an official release for years, if ever.
-Alan