-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rodolfo Schulz de Lima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 01:22:23PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote: > > BTW, those are design limits, not bugs. They are caused by the way CVS > > tracks _the_ one vendor branch. The multiple vendor-branch hacks > > I see, I've never considered them bugs. Just recently I 'discovered' > subversion (svn), a cvs like concurrent versioning system that covers > a lot of those "design limits" cvs has, including the one I've > originally talked about (and handling copy/move of a file, or an > entire directory,...). Yes, svn is a (re)design that tries to avoid some of the limits that were imposed by the original CVS design decisions. There are some really good folks working on svn and it is a very interesting project. > I really think that if CVS doesn't make some big changes in those design > limits, it will be replaced by svn when its 1.0 version arrives. Last week (2003-10-23, revision 7497), svn released version 0.32.1. I think it is likely to be a while before 1.0 is released. The svn developers are trying some new directions to see how well they work and I think they are getting good operational experience in use of their new design. I wish them all well. CVS is a more mature product and needs to move a bit more conservatively oriented when considering large changes in how it works. I suspect there will be a place for cvs even after svn 1.0 is released. Between now and the release of svn 1.0, I believe it is possible to address a number of the perceived limitations of CVS, but we need to determine how such changes fit into the overall way that CVS works rather than just adding a series of hacks. If anyone has really thought out a series of changes to CVS that allow for an evolution into a more useful system, they are encouraged to post either on [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] about them. Thanks, -- Mark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/nXdz3x41pRYZE/gRAsRHAJ9s8vxuG3+Gx9ryKEm/kxHeQ9LhLgCdGaKA xPYQtfw6tG/RNMjg8J75dEk= =kXMP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs