When will be CVS replaced by modern version control system?

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Nov 8 19:21:31 UTC 2007


Matej Cepl wrote:
> On 2007-11-08, 14:33 GMT, Lubomir Kundrak wrote:
>>>>> any plans to replace it by git, mercurial, svn or other 
>>>>> more modern version control system?
>> We don't use it as a true version conrtol system anyways.
> 
> Could you elaborate on this answer a little bit, please?
> 
>>> - CVS server outage :)
>> Other services never have outages?
> 
> They don't -- have you ever heard about distributed VC? If the 
> repository I am working against has outage, then I don't care.

But what's the point?  If you make a change that can't be committed to 
the central repository, why should anyone else care?  And if others are 
  making conflicting changes and you can't update from them, you'll just 
keep wasting your time.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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