Curious about SCM choice

Gordon Tetlow gordon at tetlows.org
Mon Jun 30 04:50:05 UTC 2008


On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> wrote:

> "Gordon Tetlow" <gordon at tetlows.org> writes:
> > As an SCM expert at my place of employment, [...]
>
> As an SCM expert, you should know that neither CVS not Subversion are
> SCM tools.  Neither are any of the other systems you mention, except
> perhaps, at a stretch, Perforce.  They are version (or revision) control
> systems.


Ah, a problem with that acronym is it has 2 different meanings (which I
think we were using different ones). I was meaning source code management,
while I think you were meaning software configuration management?

-gordon


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