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James McPherson - TSG Engineer <James.McPherson at Sun.COM> writes:

> "Linus doesn't like it" seems like a pretty damn poor reason to not 
> implement a tool like cvs,

Be that as it may, Linus not liking it *is* the reason.

> And for tidying up
> net/core -- doesn't look all that bad to me on a first glance...

The problem is that CVS, by default, quite rightly ignores files
called `core'; it makes no distinction between files and directories
so named.
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