When will CVS be replaced by modern version control system?

[Nils Philippsen]

On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 14:07 +0100, Nils Philippsen wrote:

> a) quick operations by avoiding round-trips to a remote server if not
> necessary
> b) easy branching and merging
> c) atomic operations
> d) co-maintainers (or maintainer apprentices) wouldn't need commit
> access to the main repository
> e) ability to do embargoed stuff like security fixes before they're
> public

f) ability to rename things, especially handy for re-worked patches in
our context

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