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  • 
Like Neanderthal with periodic archived releases


    

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Linux started this way


    

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Tarball releases


      

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Diff&patch updates


    

    

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Advantages


    

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Simple


      

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At least you have snapshots


    

    

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Doesn't scale very well


      

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Sync up only at release time


      

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Very coarse grained revision "history"










 
 








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13 Feb 2005 lm@bitmover.com