Removing CVS from HEAD

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Mon Sep 10 13:27:50 UTC 2012


Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> And Eitan brought up a good point regarding the fact that we have no one
> maintaining the code at this time, which means that "FreeBSD CVS" is a
> bastardized version that is totally un-interoperable with anything else
> calling itself "CVS." (Actually I think this fact should be more clear
> in the new port, FWIW.)

That is incorrect.  Our CVS interoperates just fine with stock CVS, but
it has a few features which stock CVS lacks.  For instance, it handles
read-only repositories correctly, and can be configured to format dates
according to ISO 8601.

DES
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