When will be CVS replaced by modern version control system?

[Tomas Janousek]

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.

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TJ. (Brno, CZ), BaseOS, Red Hat