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Old 5th October 2009
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The developers coordinate their commits, to avoid conflicts and such.. as such a developer must get permission from other developers before something goes into the main tree.

I'm certain that developers maintain their own private trees, either locally or somewhere private on the central server.

The snapshots that are produced by the project include patches that haven't made it into the tree, often they use this avenue to test code in the wild before they consider it stable enough.. unfortunately not a whole lot of people test the snapshots, except for the developers and some dedicated users.

OpenBSD has it's own CVS server and client project, OpenCVS, they popularized anonymous CVS access (..nobody did that before them).

Hope that helps..
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