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Date:      Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:08:50 -0700
From:      John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Gary Corcoran <gcorcoran@rcn.com>
Cc:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: USB camera
Message-ID:  <20050824220849.GD30465@funkthat.com>
In-Reply-To: <430CD2D1.9040501@rcn.com>
References:  <20050824094931.A9DB043D45@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <430C5F57.701753DB@fadesa.es> <20050824203324.02c34efa.molter@tin.it> <430CC6C3.7020800@elischer.org> <430CCB65.3050301@rcn.com> <1124912690.566.0.camel@dude.automatvapen.se> <430CD2D1.9040501@rcn.com>

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Gary Corcoran wrote this message on Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 16:04 -0400:
> >http://perforce.freebsd.org
> 
> Umm - thanks - I found that page via google.  But that
> page doesn't tell me *what* it is - or why Julian checked
> code into it instead of FreeBSD...  :)

Because with perforce, you can branch cheaply, and easily do a three
way integration to maintain your code against the FreeBSD source code...
If we all developed in CVS, then we'd have tons of broken features with
no one able to fix anything because Jim Bob's code is broken, but he
can't fix it because Mary Sue's code has issues, but of course Mary Sue
is having difficulty because Jim Bob's code in broken...

Think of perforce as the experimental FreeBSD...

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  John-Mark Gurney				Voice: +1 415 225 5579

     "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."



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