When will be CVS replaced by modern version control system?

Toshio Kuratomi a.badger at gmail.com
Wed Nov 7 20:05:58 UTC 2007


Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:38:41 +0100
> Till Maas <opensource at till.name> wrote:
> 
>> On Mi November 7 2007, Josh Boyer wrote:
>>
>>> Replacing a VCS for the fun of it is pretty pointless.  Can you
>>> elaborate on a workflow you would like to see that CVS is not suited
>>> to?  Right now, CVS works fine for what we do, which is mostly editing
>>> spec files.
>> "cvs diff" makes afaik a network connection, which makes it very slow compared 
>> to a modern vcs. Also tagging / commit takes very long imho, but maybe this 
>> is because of all the hook scripts. Afaik, there is nothing than one can do 
>> about it as a maintainer to speed this up.
> 
> You're going to come across that in any centralized type workflow.
> Which, ultimately, is exactly what Fedora is.
> 
...for tagging/commit.

diff can be done without a network connection every single time even 
with centralized management.

-Toshio




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