Problems with modules2 and CVSNT .... CVSNT has an interesting feature not found in the generic cvs server...." modules2 ". I've been using this feature for quite some time. It offers some interesting options when compared to the standard modules feature in cvs (and cvsnt). I am not going to cover all of it's features since those can be found on the cvsnt web site ....suffices to say that modules2 allows you to define alias modules in cvs using a sort of regex language of expressions. For a long time I had my guys using modules2 strictly for checkouts done by our build server. We could wrap up all the dependencies in cvs under a single "alias" module. So far one downfall has been that modules2 modules don't support the history command :P Oh well, it still made managing dependencies easy. I've always shied away from letting engineers use modules2 locally because of potential issues with check-ins and creating new modules. Recently some of the engineer...
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