| From: | Doug McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org> |
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| To: | Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar(at)myrealbox(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: 7.5 Plans |
| Date: | 2003-11-27 13:45:21 |
| Message-ID: | 87y8u26i32.fsf@asmodeus.mcnaught.org |
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Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar(at)myrealbox(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> 1. You can't easily generate a clean diff of your local version against
>> the original imported from postgresql.org. The changes you actually
>> made get buried in a mass of useless $Foo$ diff lines. Stripping those
>> out is possible in theory but painful.
>
> Is that the reason linux does not use CVS? I thought so at least.
It's probably one of a very large number of reasons. For a project on
the scale of Linux, CVS basically sucks--it's too centralized anad has
no concept of "changesets".
-Doug
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