When will be CVS replaced by modern version control system?
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Nov 7 20:57:50 UTC 2007
Tomas Janousek wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 09:52:01PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 07:38:41PM +0100, Till Maas wrote next:
>>> "cvs diff" makes afaik a network connection, which makes it very slow compared
>>> to a modern vcs.
>> Modern vcs requires additional space for this operation.
>> And second, I doubt in usefull status of this feature. IMHO, in practice (another
>> words 'very often') you need to make diff between vcs' *.spec and current.
>> You just make copy *.spec to *.spec.orig and use simple diff command.
>
> Well, in practice, I sometimes need a whole patchset from some old history of
> the specfile. This is practically impossible with cvs, so I keep a git mirror
> of the entire cvs directory, anyway.
If you run cvsweb (now viewvc) on the cvs repository it is easy to
cherry-pick any file/revision you want or diff between any committed
versions through the browser interface.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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