Removing CVS from HEAD

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Mon Sep 10 18:24:39 UTC 2012


On 9/10/2012 6:27 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> 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.

Ok, thanks for clarifying that.

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    I am only one, but I am one.  I cannot do everything, but I can do
    something.  And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what
    I can do.
			-- Edward Everett Hale, (1822 - 1909)


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