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[Alfe <address@hidden>]

Hi, Kamaraju ...

Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:

> Why CVS?  [...]  Nowadays almost everyone is using subversion where ever 
> cvs was previously employed. 

Maybe because CVS and subversion have different properties.  Subversion, for 
instance, uses more local disk space than CVS.  CVS, on the other hand, does 
more work on the repository directly which can be slow when the repository is 
remote.  CVS has some internal drawbacks which are already in the design (i. 
e. some _more_ than subversion), but there are lots of tools and scripts 
available for CVS which have no equivalent for subversion (yet).

So the choice which versioning tool to use is up to each user.

In our context, both tools are mostly the same as they both work on line 
comparing for ASCII files as the TeXmacs document files.  Problems like the 
unsolvable conflicts are the same.

Alfe