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                     18: <h2>Why OpenBSD Developers Use CVS</h2>
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1.15    ! ian        21: <a href="http://www.cvshome.org/">The Concurrent Version System (CVS)</a>
        !            22: was selected for use by the OpenBSD project group.
        !            23: With CVS, seventy or so developers are able to
1.8       deraadt    24: update the source code (which is over 1349 MB, around 75000 files) that
1.9       angelos    25: comprise the OS, ports/packages, and XFree86.  A large number of OpenBSD users
1.15    ! ian        26: then download the OS sources via <a href=anoncvs.html>anonymous CVS</a>,
1.9       angelos    27: a procedure that is much more reliable than the Software
                     28: Upgrade Protocol (sup).
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                     32: CVS also allows easy creation and maintenance of branches so that we
1.11      jason      33: can provide a release + patches source tree and a up to the minute
                     34: development source tree with parallel development.
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1.13      jufi       38: Since CVS interfaces with the Secure Shell (ssh) it can provide reliable
1.1       kstailey   39: user and host authentication.  This fits in well with the OpenBSD
                     40: project's <a href=goals.html>goal of security</a>.
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