Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 18:00:28 -0600 (MDT) From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Josh MacDonald <jmacd@cs.berkeley.edu> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PRCS (was Re: CVS Branches hits again!) Message-ID: <199707100000.SAA00009@rocky.mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199707092356.QAA11916@paris.CS.Berkeley.EDU> References: <199707092206.QAA28979@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199707092356.QAA11916@paris.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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> How many of you are using CVS's client-server capabilities directly? Is > it enabled/encouraged on freebsd.org? I'm using it at work quite a lot. Would the client/server be limited to unix, or would other OS's be able to participate somewhat easily? (This is one of the benefits of CVS/Perforce.) > > > 2) recursive module semantics > > > > Pretty much unused. > > What I mean here, is that CVS basically versions a tree of directories > and lets you name a module after various locations in the tree. I know, and like I said, it's pretty much unused in my experience. It's not necessary for the most part IMHO. > > > 3) developer notification services (mailing-list notification, for > > > example) and other command hooks (I want programmable extensions > > > for the purpose of implementing these and the stuff below). > > > > This is pretty much critical for FreeBSD, as well as many of the other > > projects I use CVS for. Having a 'log' trail is good, as well as > > sending message to the developers. > > Right, I knew this would be a catch. Were this the only catch, I would be > happy to add in everything you need. *grin* > I neglected to give URLs for people to check it out. Documentation, > links, a tutorial on advanced uses of merge (for the version-control > impaired) are at: > > http://www.xcf.berkeley.edu/~jmacd/prcs.html > > and distributions are available directly from: > > ftp://ftp.xcf.berkeley.edu/pub/prcs ... Thanks Josh! Nate
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