Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar@myrealbox.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