CVS (was: june meeting)

[Stephen J. Smith]

On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 14:10, Robert Jewell wrote:
> I enjoy hearing some info on alternatives to CVS (subversion, etc)..
> maybe just some quick pros&cons from anybody that's exhausted
> possibilities.. maybe somebody could explain to me what's wrong with
> CVS that the wheel gets reinvented.

Some CVS deficiencies:
- Checkins aren't atomic
- Moving/renaming files (and tracking moves/renames) is a PITA
- Doesn't version directories
- Doesn't handle binary files very well

Some links you might find useful:

Version Control System Comparison - Compares CVS, Aegis, Arch,
BitKeeper, CMSSynergy, Co-Op, Monotone, OpenCM, Perforce, Subversion,
svk, Vesta, and Visual Sourcesafe.
http://better-scm.berlios.de/comparison/comparison.html

Version Control UNIX configuration files - Describes two different
methods, using Oracle configuration files and /etc as examples.
http://www.piskorski.com/docs/cvs-unix.html

CVS homedir - Linux Journal article that describes how the author uses
CVS for his entire home directory.
http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5976

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