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Update the Subversion Primer in the committers-guide:

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- Explains the current state of the svn exporter, specifically that
  it should be viewed as legacy, and will not remain forever.
- Drop the one and only reference to csup.
- Drop the inclusion of the CVSup trademark attribution, no longer
  required since r40063.

Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
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Gavin Atkinson 2013-03-06 18:12:47 +00:00
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@ -33,7 +33,6 @@
<legalnotice id="trademarks" role="trademarks">
&tm-attrib.freebsd;
&tm-attrib.coverity;
&tm-attrib.cvsup;
&tm-attrib.ibm;
&tm-attrib.intel;
&tm-attrib.sparc;
@ -316,9 +315,16 @@
<emphasis>r300894</emphasis>.</para>
<para>There are mechanisms in place to automatically merge
changes back from the Subversion repository to the
<acronym>CVS</acronym> one, so regular users should not notice
a difference, however developers most certainly will.</para>
changes back from the Subversion <literal>src</literal>
repository to the <acronym>CVS</acronym> repository for
some &os; branches (<literal>releng/6</literal> through
<literal>releng/9</literal>), however this is purely to
support pre-existing end-user installs and should not be
relied upon, recommended or advertised. Future branches
will not be exported to CVS at all. The
<literal>ports</literal> repository was exported to CVS
for a period of time to aid end user migration, but as of
28th February 2013 is no longer exported.</para>
<para>Subversion is not that different from
<acronym>CVS</acronym> when it comes to daily use, but there
@ -459,8 +465,8 @@
the same UUID, some hacking of the local repository's UUID
has to occur before it is possible to start using it.</para>
<para>Unlike with <acronym>CVS</acronym> and
<acronym>csup</acronym>, the hassle of a local
<para>Unlike with <acronym>CVS</acronym>,
the hassle of a local
<command>svnsync</command> mirror probably is not worth it
unless the network connectivity situation or other factors
demand it. If it is needed, see the end of this chapter for