On 03/04/10 23:11, Brian Harring wrote: > Random sidenote, anyone looked at using an alternate vcs to do the > work, then proxy it back? Specifically thinking of workflow like svk > (or in this case hg cvs, > https://wiki.mozilla.org/Using_Mercurial_locally_with_CVS ). The > reason I ask is that via building the work up outside of cvs, then > proxying the add/remove/modifications back into it, it should be > possible to minimize the window of cvs breakage down to bare minimum > while still getting the same level of QA validation for the changes.
Assuming the person using such a tool - is fluent in using such tool (to at least compensate extra abstraction. with plain CVS you at least know for sure what's happening) - is manually doing extra commits for manifest fixes (like "repoman commit" would do for him otherwise) Sebastian
