Re: ".trunk" patch refinement

[John Macdonald]

Stephen Rasku wrote :
|| What I don't understand is:  If something is bad, why is it allowed.  
|| If using this feature is dangerous, then it should be removed from 
|| CVS.

It's not so much "bad" as it is irrelevant to the CVS way of doing
things - a distraction retained from historical roots.  Until very
recently, cvs used the rcs suite of programs for version storage, and
rcs, when not wrapped up as a part of cvs, has a significant value
for managing version numbers.

Removing it (to the extent that parts of cvs would fail to work
correctly) would make huge numbers of existing cvs repositories be
broken - not a step to be taken lightly unless you want to have
people refusing to upgrade for years, rather than take the time to
rebuild their repositories (and possibly their build processes).

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