From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 20 14:22:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B9B916A407 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:22:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D7A943D53 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:22:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.pc (host5.bedc.ondsl.gr [62.103.39.229]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-2) with ESMTP id k9KELWDc013782 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:21:37 +0300 Received: from gothmog.pc (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.pc (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id k9KEM8X3006542; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:22:08 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.pc (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id k9KEM7ZS006541; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:22:07 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:22:07 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: "pobox@verysmall.org" Message-ID: <20061020142207.GA6298@gothmog.pc> References: <4538B2AF.3080006@verysmall.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4538B2AF.3080006@verysmall.org> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-2.569, required 5, AWL -0.17, BAYES_00 -2.60, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE 0.20, UNPARSEABLE_RELAY 0.00) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:22:10 -0000 On 2006-10-20 13:27, "pobox@verysmall.org" wrote: > Hello, > > I do not want to start any discussion - it just occurred to me that it > seems like cvsup/csup binds FreeBSD to cvs (comparing to svn), or am I > wrong? You're wrong. It's the other way around: We are *forced* to use CVSup, because CVS is centralized, without any other good way to mirror changesets to a distributed network of mirrors, users and developer workspaces. On the other hand, SVN is centralized too :-)