From:	Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject:	Re: OT: cvs, rcs, and diff
Date:	25 Aug 2000 10:07:52 GMT
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Jeff Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org> wrote:
> From INSTALL for cvs-1.10:

>     Unlike previous versions of CVS, you do not need to install RCS
>     or GNU diff.  

> Ok, I can understand that CVS might not want to require RCS, since CVS
> itself is an alternative to RCS for version control.

> But why provide your own `diff'? 

Because the CVS guys want to be sure they use GNU diff, instead of
some other one the system vendor might have installed. Instead of
going through the hassle to make sure that they never accidentally
call the system 'diff', they just swallowed GNU diff (to be precise:
the GNU diff *library*, not the tool itself) into CVS.
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.

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