When will be CVS replaced by modern version control system?

Till Maas opensource at till.name
Wed Nov 7 18:38:41 UTC 2007


On Mi November 7 2007, Josh Boyer wrote:

> Replacing a VCS for the fun of it is pretty pointless.  Can you
> elaborate on a workflow you would like to see that CVS is not suited
> to?  Right now, CVS works fine for what we do, which is mostly editing
> spec files.

"cvs diff" makes afaik a network connection, which makes it very slow compared 
to a modern vcs. Also tagging / commit takes very long imho, but maybe this 
is because of all the hook scripts. Afaik, there is nothing than one can do 
about it as a maintainer to speed this up.

Regards,
Till
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