When will be CVS replaced by modern version control system?

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Nov 8 19:29:38 UTC 2007


Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Thursday 08 November 2007, Christopher Aillon wrote:
>> Les Mikesell wrote:
>>> If you run cvsweb (now viewvc) on the cvs repository it is easy to
>>> cherry-pick any file/revision you want or diff between any committed
>>> versions through the browser interface.
>> Not so.  You can only view devel/
> 
> All branches can be seen below per-package subdirs at 
> http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/rpms/

Thanks - is that link mentioned publicly anywhere?  It might be the 
handiest place to find the history of just about every spec file known 
to man.

The relevant point about branches here is that CVS doesn't version 
directories.  Like rcs, all the history is contained in each file 
separately, which has both good and bad side effects.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com





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