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Date:      Tue, 15 Sep 1998 10:02:27 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To:        Jun Kuriyama <kuriyama@sky.rim.or.jp>
Cc:        committers <committers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Can we branch doc/ja/man?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809150952450.1070-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
In-Reply-To: <35FE38FE.E09093DD@sky.rim.or.jp>

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On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Jun Kuriyama wrote:

> We are working in doc/ja/man for RELENG_2_2 branch now.  But manpage
> diffs between RELENG_2_2 and HEAD is pretty big, so we started to
> prepare translation for 3.0-RELEASE.

Historically, the main reason for separating out the doc tree
from the main freebsd src tree was to provide a "branch free
zone" for things like the Handbook and FAQ where maintaining
separate branches is non-sensical. In previous conversations
about where to put the Japanese translations, I raised this as an
issue and was given the argument[1] that this branch free zone
was exactly what the Japanese man pages needed.

Have things changed?

It is fine if they have but could some CVS expert shed light on
the practicality/hassles of having part of the doc tree branched
with the other part not?

-john

[1] I probably have most of the email transactions on the
subject, but not ready at hand.




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