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Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by ahartmetz on Thursday November 05, 2026 @09:36PM (#50387460)
CVS! That is ridiculous. I guess they dislike SVN for license reasons? I cannot think of another reason to subject oneself to such a crude and archaic SCM system.
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Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by thomashabets2 on Friday November 06, 2026 @05:26AM (#50390572)
It's a different model of development. One that doesn't invite collaboration outside full timers, or "committers".

SVN is CVS done right, but since the model is inherently ineffective for open development, you can't simply fix it.

They appear to be doing some NIH with "got" (https://gameoftrees.org/) but it's so aggressively uninviting (see the FAQ) that I don't want to spend any time looking at it, if they don't want me.

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Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by ahartmetz on Friday November 06, 2026 @05:17PM (#50399248)
Well, SVN is CVS done right so they could at least use that.
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