Last time I checked, CVS is the only way to manage a web page.
That's correct.
There's probably some actual benefit to it that
There is no explicit "benefit"; CVS was the only distributed version
control system around when savannah was set up.
Supporting other vc's is on the list, but requires a lot of work from
both savannah volunteers and FSF sysadmins, both of whom have
approximately zero time for such large projects that touch many areas of
the infrastructure, so I wouldn't hold your breath.
As for the Downloads area, that requires you to use rsync
No, as mentioned by another respondent and on
https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/DownloadArea, scp and sftp should
also work.
Best,
Karl
