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From: blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: A merge of FreeBSD and NetBSD? (Another person's opinion)
Date: 17 Sep 93 20:23:45
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In-reply-to: jtsilla@damon.ccs.northeastern.edu's message of Mon, 13 Sep 1993 02:37:41 GMT

>>>>> 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

[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.

IMHO RCS will not cut it.  It is too fiddly to try and maintain the
status of all those files manually.  If a CM system was to be used
then I would strongly suggest that CVS would be a better way to go.
Apart from being able to tell CVS "check out all the files to do with
ps" it has other nice features like being able to automatically
generate patch files.  Of course this all assumes you have the disk
space to hold > 2*`du -s /usr/src`.  If you are *serious* about doing
kernel hacking you should have.

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Brett Lymn