[cvsnt] Re: Changes to the "original" CVS codebase reflected in cvsnt?

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Fri Apr 16 15:37:46 BST 2004


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On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 16:32:56 +0200, "Tobias Rodenbach"
<trodenbach at de.adit-jv.com> wrote:

>as I read, the cvsnt codebase was forked from the unix cvs quite some
>time ago. My question is if any changes to the unix cvs codebase that
>affect source code that hasn't changed since then will be imported to
>the cvsnt source. Or have the two branches distanced so much that there
>simply is no code that hasn't changed since then (in both branches)?

There isn't much that isn't affected in some way - ie. it's unlikely
you could import an entire patch without hacking.

>Or, asked the other way round, do I (as cvsnt user) have to care e.g.
>about security warnings for cvs (e.g. like the recent one that would
>encourage me to install version 1.11.15 if i was a unix cvs user)?

There was a simultaneous cvsnt release with the same fixes in.

Tony




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