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Re: How can I get early version of cvs!


From: Mark D. Baushke
Subject: Re: How can I get early version of cvs!
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2019 16:23:36 -0700

Hi Thamer,

Alsulaiman, Thamer <address@hidden> writes:

> I am Thamer Alsulaiman, a junior faculty at UIOWA. I will be teaching
> Object oriented design next Fall.

Okay.

> I am currently thinking of giving the students project on version
> control. I downloaded the CVS files from 2005. But I wish to get much
> earlier releases, which I expect to be simpler and have basic
> functionality. I need it as a basis to understand the basic building
> blocks of version control software, and design an OO project around
> it.

Okay.

> Kindly, any pointers will be appreciated.
 
You could checkout the sources from the cvs repository
See URL: https://savannah.nongnu.org/cvs/?group=cvs )

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:address@hidden:/sources/cvs login
: <enter your email address as the password>
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:address@hidden:/sources/cvs co ccvs

If you do a 'cvs log' you should see all of the old tags to check out
older versions that have been tagged. For example, you should be able to
get cvs1-5 in this way.

> Thanks.

CVS 1.1 and 1.2 were a set of shell scripts written around RCS - The
Revision Control System.

The sources for versions prior to 1.3 were mostly shared on USENET in
comp.sources.unix and the like and cvs-1.4Alpha was shared as a set of
patches over email... which I do not believe I have any longer.

However, if you provide me space to upload, I could give you a number of
revisions from my personal archive.

  412 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user  421731 Dec 16  1993 cvs-1.3.tar.gz
 1228 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user 1256940 Jan  2  1996 cvs-1.6.tar.gz
 1320 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user 1348725 Feb 19  1996 cvs-1.7.tar.gz
 1376 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user 1406364 May  6  1996 cvs-1.8.tar.gz
 1652 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user 1687669 Jun 23  1997 cvs-1.9.tar.gz
 2460 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user 2518438 Aug 13  1998 cvs-1.9.28.tar.gz
 2456 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user 2514232 Aug 13  1998 cvs-1.9.27.tar.gz
 2492 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user 2549964 Aug 15  2000 cvs-1.10.tar.gz
 2316 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user 2371144 Sep 18  1998 cvs-1.10.2.tar.gz
 2280 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user 2334373 Feb 18  1999 cvs-1.10.5.tar.gz
 2264 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user 2317260 May 16  1999 cvs-1.10.6.tar.gz
 2260 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user 2312181 Jul 28  1999 cvs-1.10.7.tar.gz
 2268 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user 2322238 Jan 17  2000 cvs-1.10.8.tar.gz
 2636 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user 2695311 Apr 18  2002 cvs-1.11.2.tar.gz
 3116 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user 3189772 May 19  2004 cvs-1.12.8.tar.gz
 2880 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user 2947477 Jun  9  2004 cvs-1.11.17.tar.gz
    4 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user      65 Jun  9  2004 cvs-1.11.17.tar.gz.sig
 2900 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user 2969415 Nov 11  2004 cvs-1.11.18.tar.gz
    4 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user      65 Nov 11  2004 cvs-1.11.18.tar.gz.sig
 2924 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user 2992973 Feb  3  2005 cvs-1.11.19.tar.gz
    4 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user      65 Feb  3  2005 cvs-1.11.19.tar.gz.sig
 2944 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user 3013502 Apr 18  2005 cvs-1.11.20.tar.gz
    4 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user      65 Apr 18  2005 cvs-1.11.20.tar.gz.sig
 3372 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user 3451335 Sep 28  2005 cvs-1.11.21.tar.gz
    4 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user      65 Sep 28  2005 cvs-1.11.21.tar.gz.sig
 2864 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user 2929933 Sep 28  2005 cvs-1.11.21.tar.bz2
    4 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user      65 Sep 28  2005 cvs-1.11.21.tar.bz2.sig
 2872 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user 2939294 Jun  9  2006 cvs-1.11.22.tar.bz2
    4 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user      65 Jun  9  2006 cvs-1.11.22.tar.bz2.sig
 3384 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user 3463528 Jun  9  2006 cvs-1.11.22.tar.gz
    4 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user      65 Jun  9  2006 cvs-1.11.22.tar.gz.sig
 2876 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user 2942652 May  8  2008 cvs-1.11.23.tar.bz2
    4 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user      65 May  8  2008 cvs-1.11.23.tar.bz2.sig
 3432 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user 3512175 May  8  2008 cvs-1.11.23.tar.gz
    4 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user      65 May  8  2008 cvs-1.11.23.tar.gz.sig
 3308 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user 3385448 Jun  9  2004 cvs-1.12.9.tar.gz
    4 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user      65 Jun  9  2004 cvs-1.12.9.tar.gz.sig
    4 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user      65 Dec 13  2004 cvs-1.12.11.tar.gz.sig
 3584 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user 3667923 Dec 13  2004 cvs-1.12.11.tar.gz
    4 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user     189 Jan 26  2005 cvs-1.12.11.tar.gz.asc
 3964 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user 4058504 Apr 18  2005 cvs-1.12.12.tar.gz
    4 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user      65 Apr 18  2005 cvs-1.12.12.tar.gz.sig
 4628 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user 4737137 Oct  3  2005 cvs-1.12.13.tar.gz
    4 -rw-r--r--. 1 mdb user      65 Oct  3  2005 cvs-1.12.13.tar.gz.sig

You may also find that the cvsnt sources which are a rewrite in C++ may
be of interest.

        -- Mark



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