[ On Sunday, January 30, 2005 at 16:45:35 (-0800), Paul Sander wrote: ] > Subject: Re: Triggers (was Re: CVS diff and unknown files.) > > It's not so unusual for people who have done SCM for many years on > large and varied projects.
Well it depends -- you seem to belong to a (hopefully small and dwindling) group of extremely policy centered, control oriented, SCM managers. Not every large shop (still) does things that way. Lots of very large and diverse projects use CVS quite successfully without any policy enforcement at the CVS repository level. Software development and management doesn't have to be hierarchically and strictly controlled in the way you seem to think it should. The tools don't have to get in the way of the users. Change tracking tools like CVS really should only ever track changes, and the only server-side scripting that's needed to do that is the kind that CVS more or less has already: hooks to make flexible site-specific reporting easier to implement. Your style of SCM would be much better matched to something like Aegis. Why don't you go away from CVS and play with Aegis for a while. You might need a bit of a paradigm shift at the management level to make good use of it, but it really will give you far more control than you could ever get from anything even remotely like CVS. -- Greg A. Woods H:+1 416 218-0098 W:+1 416 489-5852 x122 VE3TCP RoboHack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Planix, Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Secrets of the Weird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs