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From: Doug McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org>
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Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar@myrealbox.com> writes:

> Tom Lane wrote:
>> 1. You can't easily generate a clean diff of your local version against
>> the original imported from postgresql.org.  The changes you actually
>> made get buried in a mass of useless $Foo$ diff lines.  Stripping those
>> out is possible in theory but painful.
>
> Is that the reason linux does not use CVS? I thought so at least.

It's probably one of a very large number of reasons.  For a project on
the scale of Linux, CVS basically sucks--it's too centralized anad has
no concept of "changesets".

-Doug