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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: A merge of FreeBSD and NetBSD? (Another person's opinion)
Date: 17 Sep 1993 15:28:13 GMT
Organization: Montana Stateu University, Bozeman  MT
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In article <BLYMN.93Sep17202345@mallee.awadi.com.au>,
Brett Lymn <blymn@awadi.com.au> wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, 13 Sep 1993 02:37:41 GMT, jtsilla@damon.ccs.northeastern.edu (James Tsillas) said:
James> Nntp-Posting-Host: damon.ccs.northeastern.edu
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[rave about the joys of change control software deleted]
>
James> unstable source for experimental releases which may be merged to the
James> major branch on a selective basis. I believe that RCS can provide 100%
James> of what you need to make this happen.
>
Brett>IMHO RCS will not cut it.  It is too fiddly to try and maintain the
Brett>status of all those files manually.  If a CM system was to be used
Brett>then I would strongly suggest that CVS would be a better way to go.
Brett>Apart from being able to tell CVS "check out all the files to do with
Brett>ps" it has other nice features like being able to automatically
Brett>generate patch files.  Of course this all assumes you have the disk
Brett>space to hold > 2*`du -s /usr/src`.  If you are *serious* about doing
Brett>kernel hacking you should have.

Both the FreeBSD and NetBSD teams use CVS for all their source code
control issues, and it works rather well for concurrent editing of
files.  (Though there are still multiple developers editing one file
issues)


Nate
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