New VCS Choice; SCM SIG

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Tue Jan 23 13:32:26 UTC 2007


Le Mar 23 janvier 2007 14:12, Josh Boyer a écrit :
> On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 07:44 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> > >
>> > cvs doesn't separate the concept of tags and branches.
>> Right, this bloats the repos sizes on the server (svn pushes this bloat
>> to the clients) and renders "branch removal" a pain on the server.
>>
>> >   It also works on
>> > individual files rather than whole trees.
>> Right, but I don't see this as a disadvantage. It's a different working
>> principle.
>
> This is actually what I hate most about CVS.  It doesn't have the
> concept of changesets.  So you can commit a bunch of files at once, that
> logically should be considered as one change and have a single file fail
> to commit because of a conflict while the rest go into the repo.

That's why cvs-import is insanely great

/me runs

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Nicolas Mailhot




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