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Re: conversion to git
From: |
Ralf Corsepius |
Subject: |
Re: conversion to git |
Date: |
Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:38:26 +0200 |
On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 00:04 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius <address@hidden> writes:
> > On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 21:01 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> >> I think in practice adoption drives portability more than the other way
> >> around. I don't think CVS became popular because it was portable;
>
> > Well, I think it became popular, because it had been and still IS lean,
> > simple to use/administrate and matches the demands of most projects.
>
> I'm fairly certain that's not the case. The primary advantage of CVS that
> got people to switch to it was that it did considerably more than RCS and
> had considerably more available administrative features and supported
> multiuser development (in other words, was much fatter and was much more
> complex to use, but did more).
Well, I disagree, but you've just pretty nicely described why I find
subversion a temporary and already outdated wart in SCM history ;)
> As soon as something came along that was reasonably polished, did even
> more, and was still free software, CVS started declining fast. A lot of
> projects had a love/hate relationship with CVS long before there even was
> a replacement, and some free software projects (Perl, for instance) even
> went with proprietary systems because CVS was so limited. It's almost
> impossible to find new projects these days that start with CVS instead of
> at least Subversion.
True, but do you feel subversion is progress?
As a user, I have to disagree. subversion has not been progress. It's
different, and has different pros and cons, but that's essentially all.
It's what I feel is the reason why I think people still are striving for
a better SCM.
Ralf
- Re: conversion to git, (continued)
- Re: conversion to git, Bob Friesenhahn, 2007/09/19
- Re: conversion to git, Bob Proulx, 2007/09/19
- Re: conversion to git, Russ Allbery, 2007/09/19
- Re: conversion to git, Bob Friesenhahn, 2007/09/19
- Re: conversion to git, Russ Allbery, 2007/09/20
- Re: conversion to git, Paul Smith, 2007/09/20
- Re: conversion to git, Warren Young, 2007/09/20
- Re: conversion to git, Paul Smith, 2007/09/20
- Re: conversion to git, Ralf Corsepius, 2007/09/20
- Re: conversion to git, Russ Allbery, 2007/09/20
- Re: conversion to git,
Ralf Corsepius <=
- Re: conversion to git, Russ Allbery, 2007/09/20
- Re: conversion to git, Ralf Corsepius, 2007/09/21
- Re: conversion to git, Andrej Prsa, 2007/09/21
- Re: conversion to git, Russ Allbery, 2007/09/21
- Re: conversion to git, Benoit SIGOURE, 2007/09/22
- Re: conversion to git, Eric Blake, 2007/09/22
- Re: conversion to git, Eric Blake, 2007/09/20
- Re: conversion to git, Bernd Jendrissek, 2007/09/20
- Re: conversion to git, Bob Proulx, 2007/09/20
- Re: conversion to git, Ralf Wildenhues, 2007/09/20