CVS is dead (was: how to jigdo download a fedora 8 re-spin in one easy step?)

[Les]

On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 22:38 -0300, Martin Marques wrote:
> Karl Larsen escribió:
> > 
> >    Beginning now I planned to learn what CVS is and look for 
> > instructions on wiki care and feeding.
> 
> Please Karl. CVS is dead. Check Mercurial, which is great, has a book to 
> learn how to use it, is distributed and has an excelent help:
> 
> $ yum install mercurial
> $ hg help
> 
> Be happy! :-D
> 
SourceForge still uses CVS, as do many other development places.  There
are other revision control packages, but until you mentioned it, I had
never heard of Mercurial.  Of course I am an "Old Fart", so that may
mean something to put it in context.

Regards,
Les H