When will be CVS replaced by modern version control system?

Simo Sorce ssorce at redhat.com
Thu Nov 8 19:11:20 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 19:34 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 18:40 +0100, Till Maas wrote:
> > On Mi November 7 2007, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > 
> > > Modern vcs requires additional space for this operation.
> > 
> > When I try to emulate this with CVS, I also need the additional space.
> Right _you_ would have to have _one_ modified source tree in parallel if
> _you_ would want to do this. These so called modern VCS force you to do
> so. Also, with svn etc. you have the whole history bloating and
> polluting your checkout (Now try recursively grepping a deep source-tree
> with a long history. Try gcc's (svn) source-tree to experience what I am
> referring to).

Man you can't use --exclude= ?
Or use better tools like cscope/ctags/whatever ?

Simo.




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