Re: Gnulib homepage and CVS mirror

[Stefano Lattarini]

On 05/04/2013 10:18 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> Hi Dmitry.
> 
> On 05/04/2013 01:19 AM, address@hidden wrote:
>> Hello everyone!
>>
>> It really meets my needs, since I haven't added full support for CVS yet. :-)
>> If it doesn't have any meaning, I'll remove any "tails" to SVS and will keep
>> only git support in pygnulib.
>>
> I'd say go ahead :-)  (But before doing so, wait for possible objections
> from other list members; my dislike for non-distributed VCS is well known,
> and might not be shared by everybody)
> 
> Maybe I'll prepare some patches to remove CVS support from mainline gnulib
> as well, if nobody objects to that...
> 
Done with the patch below.  OK to push?

Regards,
  Stefano

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Message-Id: <address@hidden>
From: Stefano Lattarini <address@hidden>
Date: Sat, 4 May 2013 10:30:14 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Assume gnulib is checked out from Git, not CVS

Access to the gnulib repository through CVS has been disabled,
or more precisely, got broken and was never restored; see:
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2013-05/msg00008.html>

Note that support for CVS has not be removed completely and unthinkingly:
only support for CVS checkouts of gnulib itself has been removed.  For
example, the 'bootstrap' script still cater to .cvsingore files and CVS
directories, for the benefit of those poor gnulib clients still stuck
with CVS.  Ditto for the 'gnulib-tool' script itself.

* gnulib-tool: Simplify accordingly.
* posix-modules: Likewise.
* MODULES.html.sh: Likewise.
* doc/gnulib.texi: No longer mention the decommissioned CVS gnulib
repository.
* doc/gnulib-intro.texi: Likewise.
* doc/gnulib-readme.texi: Likewise.
* doc/gnulib-tool.texi: In the examples and explanations, refer to a
sample '.gitignore' file rather than a sample '.cvsignore'.
* NEWS: Update.
* m4/extensions.m4: While at it, remove a comment mistakenly referring
to "CVS Autoconf" rather than "git Autoconf".
---
 ChangeLog              | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 MODULES.html.sh        |  2 +-
 NEWS                   |  2 ++
 doc/gnulib-intro.texi  |  4 +---
 doc/gnulib-readme.texi | 15 ++++-----------
 doc/gnulib-tool.texi   |  4 ++--
 doc/gnulib.texi        |  4 ++--
 gnulib-tool            | 24 ++++--------------------
 m4/extensions.m4       |  2 +-
 posix-modules          | 14 ++------------
 10 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 1071e48..1037033 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,31 @@
+2012-05-04  Stefano Lattarini  <address@hidden>
+
+       Assume gnulib is checked out from Git, not CVS
+
+       Access to the gnulib repository through CVS has been disabled,
+       or more precisely, got broken and was never restored; see:
+       <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2013-05/msg00008.html>
+
+       Note that support for CVS has not be removed completely and
+       unthinkingly: only support for CVS checkouts of gnulib itself
+       has been removed.  For example, the 'bootstrap' script still
+       cater to .cvsingore files and CVS directories, for the benefit
+       of those poor gnulib clients still stuck with CVS.  Ditto for
+       the 'gnulib-tool' script itself.
+
+       * gnulib-tool: Simplify accordingly.
+       * posix-modules: Likewise.
+       * MODULES.html.sh: Likewise.
+       * doc/gnulib.texi: No longer mention the decommissioned CVS gnulib
+       repository.
+       * doc/gnulib-intro.texi: Likewise.
+       * doc/gnulib-readme.texi: Likewise.
+       * doc/gnulib-tool.texi: In the examples and explanations, refer to
+       a sample '.gitignore' file rather than a sample '.cvsignore'.
+       * NEWS: Update.
+       * m4/extensions.m4: While at it, remove a comment mistakenly
+       referring to "CVS Autoconf" rather than "git Autoconf".
+
 2013-04-30  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>

        utimensat-tests, etc.: try to fix some races
diff --git a/MODULES.html.sh b/MODULES.html.sh
index ece97f4..5a563d4 100755
--- a/MODULES.html.sh
+++ b/MODULES.html.sh
@@ -3615,7 +3615,7 @@ if test -n "$missed_modules"; then

 fi

-{ find lib -type f -print; find m4 -type f -print; } | LC_ALL=C sort | sed -e 
'/\/\./d' -e /CVS/d -e /README/d -e /ChangeLog/d -e /Makefile/d -e /TODO/d -e 
'/tags$/d' -e '/TAGS$/d' -e '/~$/d' > "$tmp/all-files"
+{ find lib -type f -print; find m4 -type f -print; } | LC_ALL=C sort | sed -e 
'/\/\./d' -e /README/d -e /ChangeLog/d -e /Makefile/d -e /TODO/d -e '/tags$/d' 
-e '/TAGS$/d' -e '/~$/d' > "$tmp/all-files"
 missed_files=`for file in $seen_files; do echo $file; done \
                | LC_ALL=C sort -u \
                | LC_ALL=C join -v 2 - "$tmp/all-files"`
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index fa3a8c6..2e7a518 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ User visible incompatible changes

 Date        Modules         Changes

+2013-05-04  gnulib-tool     CVS checkout of gnulib are no longer supported.
+
 2013-02-08  careadlinkat    This module no longer provides the careadlinkatcwd
                             function.

diff --git a/doc/gnulib-intro.texi b/doc/gnulib-intro.texi
index 69d6e08..e769c7a 100644
--- a/doc/gnulib-intro.texi
+++ b/doc/gnulib-intro.texi
@@ -431,9 +431,7 @@ failure reports.  Gnulib is available in two qualities:

 @itemize
 @item
-There is the newest version of Gnulib from the Git repository.  The
-source tree can also be fetched from a read-only CVS that mirrors the Git
-repository.
+There is the newest version of Gnulib from the Git repository.

 @item
 We also make stable releases every two months, at
diff --git a/doc/gnulib-readme.texi b/doc/gnulib-readme.texi
index 76be567..20eacfc 100644
--- a/doc/gnulib-readme.texi
+++ b/doc/gnulib-readme.texi
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@

 @menu
 * Gnulib Basics::
-* git and CVS::
+* Git Checkout::
 * Keeping Up-to-date::
 * Contributing to Gnulib::
 * High Quality::
@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ Gnulib checkout.  For example:
 $ ln -s $HOME/gnu/src/gnulib.git/gnulib-tool $HOME/bin/gnulib-tool
 @end example

address@hidden git and CVS
address@hidden git and CVS
address@hidden Git Checkout
address@hidden Git Checkout

 Gnulib is available for anonymous checkout.  In any Bourne-shell the
 following should work:
@@ -76,18 +76,11 @@ When you use @code{git annotate} or @code{git blame} with 
Gnulib, it's
 recommended that you use the @option{-w} option, in order to ignore
 massive whitespace changes that happened in 2009.

-CVS checkouts are also supported:
-
address@hidden
-$ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@@pserver.git.sv.gnu.org:/gnulib.git co -d gnulib 
HEAD
address@hidden example
-
 @node Keeping Up-to-date
 @section Keeping Up-to-date

 The best way to work with Gnulib is to check it out of git.
-To synchronize, you can use @code{git pull},
-or @code{cvs update -dP} if you are still using CVS.
+To synchronize, you can use @code{git pull}.

 Subscribing to the @email{bug-gnulib@@gnu.org} mailing list will help
 you to plan when to update your local copy of Gnulib (which you use to
diff --git a/doc/gnulib-tool.texi b/doc/gnulib-tool.texi
index 061dc3f..114ab4c 100644
--- a/doc/gnulib-tool.texi
+++ b/doc/gnulib-tool.texi
@@ -631,14 +631,14 @@ In projects which commit all source files, whether 
generated or not,
 into their VCS, the @code{gnulib-tool} generated files should all be
 committed.  In this case, you should pass the option
 @samp{--no-vc-files} to @code{gnulib-tool}, which avoids alteration of
-VCS-related files such as @file{.cvsignore}.
+VCS-related files such as @file{.gitignore}.

 Gnulib also contains files generated by @command{make} (and removed by
 @code{make clean}), using information determined by
 @command{configure}.  For a Gnulib source file of the form
 @file{lib/foo.in.h}, the corresponding @file{lib/foo.h} is such a
 @command{make}-generated file.  These should @emph{not} be checked
-into the VCS, but instead added to @file{.cvsignore} or equivalent.
+into the VCS, but instead added to @file{.gitignore} or equivalent.

 @item
 In projects which customarily omit from their VCS all files that are
diff --git a/doc/gnulib.texi b/doc/gnulib.texi
index 2d13122..de39a44 100644
--- a/doc/gnulib.texi
+++ b/doc/gnulib.texi
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ Resources:
 @itemize
 @item Gnulib is hosted at Savannah:
       @url{http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnulib}.  Get the sources
-      through Git or CVS from there.
+      through Git from there.
 @item The Gnulib home page:
       @url{http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/}.
 @end itemize
@@ -1073,7 +1073,7 @@ your favorite platform, you may perform these steps:
 @item Create gnulib directory

 On a machine with recent automake, autoconf, m4 installed and with a
-gnulib git or cvs checkout (typically a Linux machine), use
+gnulib git checkout (typically a Linux machine), use

 @example
 gnulib-tool --create-megatestdir --with-tests --dir=...
diff --git a/gnulib-tool b/gnulib-tool
index c5ab13b..878f272 100755
--- a/gnulib-tool
+++ b/gnulib-tool
@@ -322,18 +322,8 @@ q
     date=`date -d "$date" -u +"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"`
     version=' '`cd "$gnulib_dir" && ./build-aux/git-version-gen /dev/null | 
sed -e 's/-dirty/-modified/'`
   else
-    if test -d "$gnulib_dir"/CVS \
-       && (cvs --version) >/dev/null 2>/dev/null; then
-      # gnulib checked out from CVS.
-      sed_extract_first_date='/^date: /{
-s/^date: \([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]\).\([0-9][0-9]\).\([0-9][0-9]\) 
\([0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]\).*/\1-\2-\3 \4/p
-q
-}'
-      date=`cd "$gnulib_dir" && cvs log -N ChangeLog 2>/dev/null | sed -n -e 
"$sed_extract_first_date"`
-    else
-      # gnulib copy without versioning information.
-      date=`sed -e 's/ .*//;q' "$gnulib_dir"/ChangeLog`
-    fi
+    # gnulib copy without versioning information.
+    date=`sed -e 's/ .*//;q' "$gnulib_dir"/ChangeLog`
     version=
   fi
   year=`"$gnulib_dir"/build-aux/mdate-sh "$self_abspathname" | sed -e 's,^.* 
,,'`
@@ -1504,8 +1494,7 @@ func_lookup_file ()
 # the resulting list to standard output, one per line.
 func_sanitize_modulelist ()
 {
-  sed -e '/^CVS\//d' -e '/\/CVS\//d' \
-      -e '/^ChangeLog$/d' -e '/\/ChangeLog$/d' \
+  sed -e '/^ChangeLog$/d' -e '/\/ChangeLog$/d' \
       -e '/^COPYING$/d' -e '/\/COPYING$/d' \
       -e '/^README$/d' -e '/\/README$/d' \
       -e '/^TEMPLATE$/d' \
@@ -1543,7 +1532,6 @@ func_exists_module ()
   { test -f "$gnulib_dir/modules/$1" \
     || { test -n "$local_gnulib_dir" && test -d "$local_gnulib_dir/modules" \
          && test -f "$local_gnulib_dir/modules/$1"; }; } \
-  && test "CVS" != "$1" \
   && test "ChangeLog" != "$1" \
   && test "COPYING" != "$1" \
   && test "README" != "$1" \
@@ -6169,11 +6157,7 @@ func_create_megatestdir ()
   func_append megasubdirs "ALL"

   # Create autobuild.
-  cvsdate=`if test -f "$gnulib_dir/CVS/Entries"; then \
-             vc_witness="$gnulib_dir/CVS/Entries"; \
-           else \
-             vc_witness="$gnulib_dir/.git/refs/heads/master"; \
-           fi; \
+  cvsdate=`vc_witness="$gnulib_dir/.git/refs/heads/master"; \
            sh "$gnulib_dir/build-aux/mdate-sh" "$vc_witness" \
              | sed -e 's,January,01,'   -e 's,Jan,01,' \
                    -e 's,February,02,'  -e 's,Feb,02,' \
diff --git a/m4/extensions.m4 b/m4/extensions.m4
index 07ba376..e30f122 100644
--- a/m4/extensions.m4
+++ b/m4/extensions.m4
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 # gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
 # with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.

-# This definition of AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS is stolen from CVS
+# This definition of AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS is stolen from git
 # Autoconf.  Perhaps we can remove this once we can assume Autoconf
 # 2.70 or later everywhere, but since Autoconf mutates rapidly
 # enough in this area it's likely we'll need to redefine
diff --git a/posix-modules b/posix-modules
index fcc9a45..c782957 100755
--- a/posix-modules
+++ b/posix-modules
@@ -52,18 +52,8 @@ q
     date=`date -d "$date" -u +"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"`
     version=' '`cd "$gnulib_dir" && ./build-aux/git-version-gen /dev/null | 
sed -e 's/-dirty/-modified/'`
   else
-    if test -d "$gnulib_dir"/CVS \
-       && (cvs --version) >/dev/null 2>/dev/null; then
-      # gnulib checked out from CVS.
-      sed_extract_first_date='/^date: /{
-s/^date: \([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]\).\([0-9][0-9]\).\([0-9][0-9]\) 
\([0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]\).*/\1-\2-\3 \4/p
-q
-}'
-      date=`cd "$gnulib_dir" && cvs log -N ChangeLog 2>/dev/null | sed -n -e 
"$sed_extract_first_date"`
-    else
-      # gnulib copy without versioning information.
-      date=`sed -e 's/ .*//;q' "$gnulib_dir"/ChangeLog`
-    fi
+    # gnulib copy without versioning information.
+    date=`sed -e 's/ .*//;q' "$gnulib_dir"/ChangeLog`
     version=
   fi
   year=`"$gnulib_dir"/build-aux/mdate-sh "$self_abspathname" | sed 's,^.* ,,'`
-- 
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