[M3devel] some cvs errors?

[Darko Volaric]

Has anyone considered git? It seems particularly well suited to  
distributed development, having been essentially designed for open  
source groups, and seems to be undergoing intensive development.


On 05/08/2009, at 12:12 AM, Neels J Hofmeyr wrote:

> Randy Coleburn wrote:
>>
>> As far as replacing CVS with something else, I have "no dog in the  
>> race"
>> so to speak, but I will say that CVS has worked fine for my  
>> purposes and
>> the TortoiseCVS integration with Windows Explorer makes life easy  
>> for me
>
> Well, there is TortoiseSVN.
>
> I'm not convinced that the branching strategies needed for CM3 dev  
> would
> indeed push svn over the edge of its capabilities -- not if CVS  
> worked fine
> all these years.
>
> And I would certainly prefer a free SCM to one with a price tag and a
> restrictive license. You guessed it, one of the Subversion committers
> speaking ;)
>
> ...and this discussion remains empty until anyone wants to actually  
> do the
> work ;)
> ~Neels
>
>> on Windows.  I don't have to remember all the CVS command line  
>> switches;
>> I just use the TortoiseCVS GUI and it works.  If we switch to  
>> something
>> else that doesn't have this level of GUI, it will present a learning
>> curve for me.
>> Regards,
>> Randy Coleburn
>>
>>>>> Olaf Wagner <wagner at elegosoft.com> 8/4/2009 4:22 AM >>>
>> Quoting Jay K <jay.krell at cornell.edu>:
>>
>>>
>>> One error, the second one, was maybe local, not on the server.
>>> I saw it again later while running make-dist.sh, it tries to update
>> itself.
>>> Not clear why it occured here, maybe I had one running and the use
>>> of $Id$ caused an attempted and failed write. Or maybe the error was
>>> on the server. With CVS, can't be sure of much imho.
>>> The other seems ok.
>>> +2 for replacing cvs with something better.. after we invent more  
>>> time...
>>
>> That something better would then be Perforce or AccuRev?
>>
>> Elego has got 3 committers to the Subversion project, and there are
>> lots of problems, too. We've got several customers who are regularly
>> pushing it over the edge of its capabilities...
>>
>> But I'm not against a change, as long as others will do the work ;-)
>>
>> Olaf
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