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On Tuesday 11 July 2006 20:48, Andrew Reilly wrote:
> (a) Mac OS X has cvs installed out of
> the box, in /usr/bin/cvs.  It's version 1.11.20, wich is a
> good bit *more* recent than the version 1.11.17 that FreeBSD
> is still using (why? incompatabilities with developers' pet
> scripts?)

Because we have thousands of lines of changes to CVS that need careful 
merging. We generally apply the security patches instead unless there 
has been a compelling feature we need.

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Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com
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