[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Linus

[Neil Stevens]

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On Sunday October 12, 2003 12:59 pm, Miles Bader wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 03:23:45PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> > > The main thing is that due ot the way FreeBSD is developped, a
> > > centralised solution like CVS or P4 works nicely. Switching to a
> > > distributed system ?? la Arch would be quite a large change.
> >
> > It won't be that different if you use a patch queue manager; then you
> > get all the good things about centralization, while still allowing
> > distributed development around the center.
>
> As far as I know there's nothing preventing arch from being used
> _exactly_ like CVS, with everyone committing to the same archive (and
> there's no obstacle to moving to more distributed development in that
> case either).

CVS has server-side hooks.  A move from CVS to arch loses that 
functionality.

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