When will be CVS replaced by modern version control system?

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:38:41 +0100
Till Maas <opensource at till.name> wrote:

> 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.

You're going to come across that in any centralized type workflow.
Which, ultimately, is exactly what Fedora is.

josh