New VCS Choice; SCM SIG

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 21:46 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 21:07 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 06:33:17PM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> >  
> > > Right but we're talking at cross-purposes.  What I mean is, are we using
> > > these now with the fedora-extras and fedora-core dist-cvs?  If so, what
> > > are the commands you're running to do that?
> > > 
> > > Although we talk about branches with dist-cvs, there's no cvs branches
> > > in the repository that I'm aware of.  So I'm wondering if Karel has some
> > > commands that he's using now or if this is a "If we use real branches in
> > > the next SCM, it'll give us the ability to do operation Xyz in a better
> > > way."
> > 
> > Well, there's nothing to really prevent someone from using a branch for
> > private development.  The buildsys won't build off of it, but you can
> > commit stuff to a branch if you'd like.  And of course, there's also the
> > tagging we _do_ use.  Which is similar to a CVS branch.  You can actually
> > do the merge command using tag names too.
> > 
> > I can see some use cases for using branching with git, simply because
> > branches are trivial to create and work with.
> > 
> Yeah -- branches in subversion and bazaar are trivial,
How comes you consider branches in CVS to be more complex?

I for one (Many year's of CVS power-usage), have never found subversion
branches easy to use (I've never used bazaar nor git).

Ralf