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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:5179 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1040 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: A merge of FreeBSD and NetBSD? (Another person's opinion) Date: 17 Sep 1993 15:28:13 GMT Organization: Montana Stateu University, Bozeman MT Lines: 32 Message-ID: <27cl2d$nn0@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <1993Sep8.231610.9740@ccds3.ntu.edu.tw> <haley.747858702@husc8> <JTSILLA.93Sep12213741@damon.ccs.northeastern.edu> <BLYMN.93Sep17202345@mallee.awadi.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <BLYMN.93Sep17202345@mallee.awadi.com.au>, Brett Lymn <blymn@awadi.com.au> wrote: >>>>>> 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. > Brett>IMHO RCS will not cut it. It is too fiddly to try and maintain the Brett>status of all those files manually. If a CM system was to be used Brett>then I would strongly suggest that CVS would be a better way to go. Brett>Apart from being able to tell CVS "check out all the files to do with Brett>ps" it has other nice features like being able to automatically Brett>generate patch files. Of course this all assumes you have the disk Brett>space to hold > 2*`du -s /usr/src`. If you are *serious* about doing Brett>kernel hacking you should have. Both the FreeBSD and NetBSD teams use CVS for all their source code control issues, and it works rather well for concurrent editing of files. (Though there are still multiple developers editing one file issues) Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me