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Revision Control Software
For years the *BSD projects (among many others) used primarily CVS for revision control. I think I noticed that FreeBSD either is going to or has already migrated to Subversion. And OpenBSD is working on OpenCVS, a BSD licensed CVS replacement (goodbye GNU! - maybe all the BSD projects will start using this). I'm wondering what are the reasonings behind which revision control software is used.
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As always, there will always be different opinions on such matters.. FreeBSD is in a strange boat, they appear to maintain several repositories.. perforce, cvs and svn.. and possibly git.
http://perforce.freebsd.org/ http://svn.freebsd.org/ http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ Personally, I like SVN.. but I don't dislike CVS either. Is the following useful? or are you just seeking speculation? because.. that's pretty much all you'll find here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compari...ntrol_software |
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Development of OpenCVS is motivated by having a BSD-licensed equivalent, & has been in development for many years. I don't know all of the reasons why it is still in the percolation stage, but I recall discussion on OpenBSD's misc@ mailing list that they were wanting to ensure robustness & the ability to be drop in replacement for the GNU version -- which means that they are having to duplicate the myriad of bugs that the GNU version has as well. If you are looking for a definitive answer, I'm not sure you will find one, however, the first place to look is study the archives of misc@. http://marc.info is a tremedous tool for searching not only the various OpenBSD mailing lists, but other *BSD's as well. |
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