On Feb 20, 8:30 pm, "Arthur Barrett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dimensions user .... > > I assume you mean "I was a Dimensions user but now I want to/must use > CVS", but I appreciate your sentiment. > > Remember that different SCM processes achieve different results for an > organisation and that different SCM processes are better supported by > different tools. CVS is no better or worse than Dimensions from a CM > point of view - it just has different strengths and weaknesses. > > There are also many flavours of CVS: this CVS (sometimes known as nongnu > CVS or gnu CVS), OpenCVS, DCVS, CVSNT and SVN, all have different > strengths and weaknesses too. I personally have more to do with CVSNT > (which is NOT a windows version of CVS... though it does run on windows > and unix) it has things like changesets, commit ids/atomicity, audit, > merge tracking, true rename etc. Many features 'debut' in CVSNT and > eventually make it into the other tools. > > > cvs is a gnu scm / version control tool. It runs as a server on a > > unix box. > > Well it depends if you count the 'variations' - CVSNT certainly runs on > windows and unix as do many other variations of CVS, however I think CVS > itself only runs on windows as a server if you also have cygwin. > > > There are various Windows clients available. No additional > > database is required to run with it. > > I see your Dimensions origins showing through. You may be interested in > looking at the evscm.org project which is a port of CVS with an SQL > database backend, or CVSNT which has an SQL audit database. > > Also see the wikipedia > page:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent_Versions_System > > Regards, > > Arthur
Thanks. New job.
