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Date:      Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:12:40 -0700 (MST)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: removing CVS in Handbook Updating and Upgrading chapter
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1301251154450.5025@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.GSO.1.10.1301251321400.9389@multics.mit.edu>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1301241510470.86451@wonkity.com> <alpine.GSO.1.10.1301251321400.9389@multics.mit.edu>

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On Fri, 25 Jan 2013, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Jan 2013, Warren Block wrote:
>
>> CVS is going away soon, and we should not be advising people to start using 
>> them now.
>> 
>> This diff entirely removes cvsup, csup, and CVS references from the 
>> Updating and Upgrading chapter.  SVN URLs are also changed to the preferred 
>> form and links to the SVN mirrors are added.
>> 
>> Rendered: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/temp/cuttingedge-nocvs.html
>>    Diff: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/temp/cuttingedge-nocvs.diff
>
> "western US repository" doesn't seem quite right; it is a mirror, not its own 
> repository, as I understand it.

It is a mirror of the repository, so both, but you're right, "mirror" 
works better here.

> "URL previxes for Subversion checkout of the base system" may want to be 
> "checkouts"; I didn't fully analyze the sentence structure.

I see what you mean...  Damn this reasonableness!  It could be "a 
Subversion checkout", but I still prefer the original.



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