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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:5134 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1022 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!myall.awadi.com.au!myall!blymn From: blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: A merge of FreeBSD and NetBSD? (Another person's opinion) Date: 17 Sep 93 20:23:45 Organization: AWA Defence Industries Lines: 20 Message-ID: <BLYMN.93Sep17202345@mallee.awadi.com.au> References: <1993Sep8.231610.9740@ccds3.ntu.edu.tw> <CD190K.FwG@latcs1.lat.oz.au><CD3JII.F5w.1@cs.cmu.edu> <26p8ul$1eb@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <MYCROFT.93Sep11213749@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <haley.747858702@husc8> <JTSILLA.93Sep12213741@damon.ccs.northeastern.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mallee.awadi.com.au In-reply-to: jtsilla@damon.ccs.northeastern.edu's message of Mon, 13 Sep 1993 02:37:41 GMT >>>>> 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. IMHO RCS will not cut it. It is too fiddly to try and maintain the status of all those files manually. If a CM system was to be used then I would strongly suggest that CVS would be a better way to go. Apart from being able to tell CVS "check out all the files to do with ps" it has other nice features like being able to automatically generate patch files. Of course this all assumes you have the disk space to hold > 2*`du -s /usr/src`. If you are *serious* about doing kernel hacking you should have. -- Brett Lymn