From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 10 13:27:50 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57C6E106564A; Mon, 10 Sep 2012 13:27:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from smtp.des.no (smtp.des.no [194.63.250.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15A438FC15; Mon, 10 Sep 2012 13:27:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ds4.des.no (smtp.des.no [194.63.250.102]) by smtp.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16CB161D1; Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:27:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: by ds4.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id CEEE589F2; Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:27:48 +0200 (CEST) From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= To: Doug Barton References: <20120908234659.GA10489@server.rulingia.com> <42D7F0F3-46EC-484A-8665-626AD5D0404E@bsdimp.com> <504D2BE4.6030007@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:27:48 +0200 In-Reply-To: <504D2BE4.6030007@FreeBSD.org> (Doug Barton's message of "Sun, 09 Sep 2012 16:53:08 -0700") Message-ID: <86oblehusr.fsf@ds4.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Eitan Adler , arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing CVS from HEAD X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 13:27:50 -0000 Doug Barton 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 --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no