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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD
Date: 7 Dec 1995 23:13:57 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) writes:

> What I was asking for is to access the revision control system to
> check out *any* *previous* chance, in this specific case (the FreeBSD
> VM system) to check out every commit for certain files, even those
> that have been done years ago. That is readonly access to the CVS
> tree. 

We're working on it, for a _public_ version.

If you've got a good reason for getting private read-only access to
the FreeBSD CVS *right now*, i think we could find a way.  Just ask
for it.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)