Re: 7.5 Plans - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Doug McNaught
Subject Re: 7.5 Plans
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Msg-id 87y8u26i32.fsf@asmodeus.mcnaught.org
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In response to Re: 7.5 Plans  (Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar@myrealbox.com>)
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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


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