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What is the policy on CVS commits?

April 26, 2017commits CVS policy

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What is the policy on CVS commits?

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Don’t step on any toes. Ask someone listed in the AUTHORS before committing to any subproject. If you can’t reach anyone in the AUTHORS file, ask on the general@ mailing list to make sure the project is abandoned. • Code • forge (250MB+) • metaserver • Media • media (130MB+) • media-2d (590MB+) • media-3d (150MB+) • music • sound A word of warning. Do not attempt to check out complete copies of the media modules. Due to a design flaw in CVS, the server attempts to load the entire module into RAM during the checkout and kills the machine. Your checkout will freeze and never complete. Browse the CVS modules using CVSWeb and check out selected subdirectories as desired, or the entire module piecemeal.