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@@ -478,7 +478,7 @@
 	  other repositories, and keeping local branches for merging
 	  back into the upstream repositories.  There are extensions
 	  that allow <acronym>SVK</acronym> to mirror
-	  <acronym>CVS</acronym> and Perforce repositories in addition
+	  Perforce repositories in addition
 	  to Subversion ones.</para>
 
 	<para>Like everything, <acronym>SVK</acronym> has its
@@ -711,16 +711,6 @@
 	daily use, except for the revision renumbering mentioned
 	earlier.</para>
 
-      <note>
-	<para><acronym>SVN</acronym> and <acronym>SVK</acronym>
-	  commands that have direct <acronym>CVS</acronym> equivalents
-	  usually have the same name and abbreviations.  For example:
-	  <emphasis>checkout</emphasis> and <emphasis>co</emphasis>,
-	  <emphasis>update</emphasis> and <emphasis>up</emphasis>, and
-	  <emphasis>commit</emphasis> and
-	  <emphasis>ci</emphasis>.</para>
-      </note>
-
       <sect3>
 	<title>Help</title>
 
@@ -824,11 +814,7 @@
 
 	<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>svn status</userinput></screen>
 
-	<para><acronym>CVS</acronym> has no direct equivalent of this
-	  command.  The nearest would be <command>cvs up -N</command>
-	  which shows local changes and files that are out-of-date.
-	  Doing this in <acronym>SVN</acronym> is possible too,
-	  however:</para>
+	<para>To show local changes and files that are out-of-date do:</para>
 
 	<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>svn status --show-updates</userinput></screen>
       </sect3>
@@ -836,7 +822,7 @@
       <sect3>
 	<title>Editing and Committing</title>
 
-	<para>Like <acronym>CVS</acronym> but unlike Perforce,
+	<para>Unlike Perforce,
 	  <acronym>SVN</acronym> and <acronym>SVK</acronym> do not
 	  need to be told in advance about file editing.</para>
 
@@ -882,7 +868,7 @@
 	    </para>
 	</note>
 
-	<para>As with <acronym>CVS</acronym>, files are added to a
+	<para>Files are added to a
 	  <acronym>SVN</acronym> repository with <command>svn
 	    add</command>.  To add a file named
 	  <emphasis>foo</emphasis>, edit it, then:</para>
@@ -910,10 +896,9 @@
 
 	<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>svn mkdir <replaceable>bar</replaceable></userinput></screen>
 
-	<para>In <acronym>CVS</acronym>, the directory is immediately
-	  created in the repository when you <command>cvs
-	    add</command> it; this is not the case in Subversion.
-	  Furthermore, unlike <acronym>CVS</acronym>, Subversion
+	<para>The directory is not immediately
+	  created in the repository when you use <command>svn
+	    mkdir</command>.  Subversion
 	  allows directories to be removed using <command>svn
 	    rm</command>, however there is no <command>svn
 	    rmdir</command>:</para>
@@ -938,9 +923,6 @@
 
 	<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>svn copy <replaceable>foo.c</replaceable> <replaceable>bar.c</replaceable></userinput>
 &prompt.user; <userinput>svn remove <replaceable>foo.c</replaceable></userinput></screen>
-
-	<para>Neither of these operations have equivalents in
-	  <acronym>CVS</acronym>.</para>
       </sect3>
 
       <sect3>
@@ -965,11 +947,11 @@
 
 	<para><command>svn diff</command> displays changes to the
 	  working copy of the repository.  Diffs generated by
-	  <acronym>SVN</acronym> are unified by default, unlike
-	  <acronym>CVS</acronym>, and include new files by default
+	  <acronym>SVN</acronym> are unified
+	  and include new files by default
 	  in the diff output.</para>
 
-	<para>As with <acronym>CVS</acronym>, <command>svn
+	<para><command>svn
 	    diff</command> can show the changes between two revisions
 	  of the same file:</para>
 
@@ -987,8 +969,8 @@
 	<title>Reverting</title>
 
 	<para>Local changes (including additions and deletions) can be
-	  reverted using <command>svn revert</command>.  Unlike
-	  <command>cvs up -C</command>, it does not update out-of-date
+	  reverted using <command>svn revert</command>.
+	  It does not update out-of-date
 	  files&mdash;it just replaces them with pristine copies of
 	  the original version.</para>
       </sect3>
@@ -1877,8 +1859,8 @@ U    stable/9/share/man/man4/netmap.4
 	  of <command>svn status</command> and <command>svn
 	    diff</command> before committing.</para>
 
-	<para>Mistakes will happen, but, unlike with
-	  <acronym>CVS</acronym>, they can generally be fixed without
+	<para>Mistakes will happen but,
+	  they can generally be fixed without
 	  disruption.</para>
 
 	<para>Take a case of adding a file in the wrong location.  The