Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?

Kimmo Paasiala kpaasial at gmail.com
Wed Jan 2 02:42:04 UTC 2013


On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 12:51 AM, Matthias Andree <mandree at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Am 31.12.2012 21:40, schrieb Chris H:
>
>> IM(NS)HO; SVN is an inferior RCS created so Windows users wouldn't feel
>> left out.
>
> No, and it has nothing to do with Windows.  CVS does work on Windows.
>
> SVN 1.5 or newer is CVS done right, if you want the server-client split
> model, and can waive the "distributed" nature of Mercurial, Git, or
> Bazaar-NG.
>
> For those who abuse CVS as content distribution and management system to
> just peek at individual files, it may not matter, and the pain of
> migrating to SVN may dominate, but if you have ever manually assembled a
> list of versions for how to merge because someone else branched in CVS
> without laying proper tags, you know why CVS must be replaced.

It's completely laughable to try to put a "yet another dumbed down
tool for windows users" label on Subversion. It's not. To the OP of
this thread, do your homework before you make such claims.


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