svn commit: r45149 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide

[Eitan Adler]

Author: eadler
Date: Sun Jun 29 07:40:21 2014
New Revision: 45149
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/45149

Log:
  Stop comparing svn to CVS.  We havn't used CVS in a long time, and its
  unlikely that new contributors have either.

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.xml	Sun Jun 29 07:40:20 2014	(r45148)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.xml	Sun Jun 29 07:40:21 2014	(r45149)
@@ -443,13 +443,6 @@ You need a Passphrase to protect your se
       <link xlink:href="http://svnbook.red-bean.com/">Subversion
 	Book</link>.</para>
 
-    <para><link
-	xlink:href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/SubversionMissing">There
-	is a list of things missing in Subversion when compared to
-	CVS</link>.  The notes at <uri
-	  xlink:href="http://people.freebsd.org/~peter/svn_notes.txt">http://people.freebsd.org/~peter/svn_notes.txt</uri>
-      might also be useful.</para>
-
     <sect2 xml:id="svn-intro">
       <title>Introduction</title>
 
@@ -479,59 +472,17 @@ You need a Passphrase to protect your se
 	The first real <acronym>SVN</acronym> commit is
 	<emphasis>r300894</emphasis>.</para>
 
-      <para>Subversion is not that different from
-	<acronym>CVS</acronym> when it comes to daily use, but there
-	are differences.  Subversion has a number of features that
+      <para>Subversion has a number of features that
 	should make developers' lives easier.  The most important
 	advantage to Subversion (and the reason why &os; switched) is
 	that it handles branches and merging much better than CVS
 	does.  Some of the principal differences are:</para>
 
-      <itemizedlist>
-	<listitem>
-	  <para>Commits are atomic.</para>
-	</listitem>
-
-	<listitem>
-	  <para>Revision numbers apply across the repository—all
-	    files that were modified in the same commit have the same
-	    revision number.</para>
-	</listitem>
-
-	<listitem>
-	  <para>Branching and tagging are namespace operations.</para>
-	</listitem>
-
-	<listitem>
-	  <para>Directories are versioned.</para>
-	</listitem>
-
-	<listitem>
-	  <para>Files and directories can have arbitrary, versioned
-	    metadata attached to them.</para>
-	</listitem>
-
-	<listitem>
-	  <para>Files and directories can be copied, with full history
-	    tracking.</para>
-	</listitem>
-
-	<listitem>
-	  <para>No more contortions due to <acronym>CVS</acronym>
-	    weakness such as applying &man.patch.1; files at compile
-	    time in order to avoid touching vendor branch code.</para>
-	</listitem>
-
-	<listitem>
-	  <para>No more repo-copies.</para>
-	</listitem>
-      </itemizedlist>
-
       <para>Subversion can be installed from the &os; Ports
 	Collection by issuing these commands:</para>
 
-      <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/ports/devel/subversion</userinput>
-&prompt.root; <userinput>make clean install</userinput></screen>
+      <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg install subversion</userinput></screen>
+
     </sect2>
 
     <sect2 xml:id="svn-getting-started">