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Projektlinks

• Homepage

Befehle und Aliase

• cvscan
• cvsup2cvsync
• cvsync
• cvsync2cvsup
• cvsyncd
• rcscan
• rcscmp

Projektgeschichte

The official site presents CVSync as a BSD-licensed CVS repository synchronization utility and now points all CVSync materials to GitHub. The project copyright line covers MAEKAWA Masahide from 2003 through 2026.

Adoptionsgeschichte

CVSync belongs to the era when public CVS mirrors mattered: it offered repository-level synchronization over a dedicated cvsync protocol and included tools for mirror operators who were also dealing with CVSup-style distribution.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users run cvsync against a cvsync:// host to list or retrieve collections, while cvsyncd serves collections and companion tools scan RCS files, compare repositories, and convert between CVSup and CVSync metadata.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

For package archaeology, CVSync is a mirror-maintenance tool: it reflects the operational side of old source distributions, where keeping RCS-backed CVS repositories synchronized was as important as using the version-control client.

Zeitleiste

• 2003: CVSync documentation and copyright history begin.
• 2003: The ChangeLog records rapid 0.19.x through 0.24.x development.
• The official site lists 0.24.20 as a distribution release and points development activity to GitHub.

Related projects

• CVSync is related to CVS, RCS repository files, and CVSup-style repository distribution.

Quellen

• https://www.cvsync.org/
• https://github.com/cvsync/cvsync
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cvsync/cvsync/master/doc/ChangeLog.2003