[M3devel] some cvs errors?

Darko Volaric lists at darko.org
Wed Aug 5 14:06:54 CEST 2009


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
>> -- 
>> Olaf Wagner -- elego Software Solutions GmbH
>>                Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25 / Gebäude 12, 13355 Berlin,  
>> Germany
>> phone: +49 30 23 45 86 96  mobile: +49 177 2345 869  fax: +49 30 23  
>> 45 86 95
>>    http://www.elegosoft.com | Geschäftsführer: Olaf Wagner | Sitz:  
>> Berlin
>> Handelregister: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg HRB 77719 | USt-IdNr:  
>> DE163214194
>>
>




More information about the M3devel mailing list