On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 06:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >  from:    Scott Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 03:52:35PM  0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:
> > > Can I ask for some clarification here? I had no idea what subversion
> > > was, and yet people are now talking about using it _instead_ of CVS.
> >
> > http://subversion.tigris.org
>
> So basically subversion is great so long as you like the command line. 

http://rapidsvn.tigris.org/ is the most mature GUI for SVN. But there is 3 or 
4 around. So basically subversion is great ;)

> I
> don't object to the fundamental idea of a better CVS (I've not used it
> enough to find any problems with CVS that need fixing). 

Biggest pet hates for me;

* CVS no version metadata and thus you can't move files around and keep 
history (and also live with hacks like prune and manual filesystem hand 
hacking)
* CVS speed/performance can suck when you add in binaries, have lots of empty 
directories etc.
* multi merge sucks

> But to use it here,
> excludes users and developers who are GUI based, either through a tool
> (Eclipse) or specific tool (ViewCVS).

ViewCVS is fine as of next version. Eclipse is getting it, apparently IDEA has 
it as a plugin. All good.

-- 
Cheers,

Peter Donald
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