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To: Wez Furlong <kingwez@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 16:54:45 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] CVS tarball
From: Piotr_Roszatycki@netia.net.pl (Piotr Roszatycki)

On Friday 07 of October 2005 16:23, Wez Furlong wrote:
> I honestly don't see how it will be any better than CVS, if the data
> comes from CVS in the first place.
>
> Since we've generally got our plates full, we don't have the resources
> to support third parties maintaining their own forks.  We'd much
> rather have those third parties working directly with us so that forks
> are not necessary.

I should redirect you to SVK website (http://svk.elixus.org/) and especially 
to http://svk.elixus.org/?SingleUserSVK 
http://svk.elixus.org/?SyncReposBetweenServers and 
http://svk.elixus.org/?SVKAsAProxyForCVSMirror
This is the better tool and designer to make the life much simpler, not more 
complicated.

I.e. with CVS you can't get the diff of one commit for more that one file, 
because the revisions are per file, not per repository. You can't find which 
files was modified i.e. with "Fixed bug #34358" message without cvs2cl tool. 
You have to dig the CVS repository and carefully read the log messages. It is 
just one operation with Subversion.

Why don't you just provide the CVS tarball like for Sourceforge's projects? 
Theirs tarballs are available as 
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/PROJECTNAME-cvsroot.tar.bz2

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