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From: Christopher Nielsen <cnielsen@pobox.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Publish and be damned.
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 13:35:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010420133558.F9543@cassie.foobarbaz.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010420163931.A6978@cackle.proxima.alt.za>; from lucio@proxima.alt.za on Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 04:39:31PM +0200

On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 04:39:31PM +0200, Lucio De Re wrote:

> > the web is well established, but CVS?
> >
> I appreciate that CVS is only a partial solution.  It is, to my
> mind, as good as we've been able to make readily available; better
> solutions may exist, but they're not in the realm of free software.
> I'm also aware of forsyth's comment that the DUMP filesystem in
> Plan 9 is adequate, but somehow I can't be convinced that it provides
> all the benefits of CVS.  And, quite honestly, I could use more
> features than CVS offers, although I'd be hard put to explain
> exactly what features I miss.

CVS is broken in many ways. Take a look at subversion.

http://subversion.tigris.org

It's not done yet, but it's getting pretty close. It
fixes much of the brokenness in CVS.

--
Christopher Nielsen - Metal-wielding pyro techie
cnielsen@pobox.com
"Any technology indistinguishable from magic is
insufficiently advanced." --unknown


  reply	other threads:[~2001-04-20 20:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-20  5:54 Lucio De Re
2001-04-20 12:22 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-20 14:13   ` Eric Lee Green
2001-04-20 19:15     ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-20 14:39   ` Lucio De Re
2001-04-20 20:35     ` Christopher Nielsen [this message]
2001-04-20 21:02     ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-21  7:34       ` Lucio De Re
2001-04-21 11:06         ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-21 12:59           ` Lucio De Re
2001-04-21 13:43             ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-21 14:20               ` Lucio De Re
2001-04-21 13:08           ` Steve Kilbane
2001-04-22  1:37             ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-22  9:37               ` Steve Kilbane
2001-04-22 14:51                 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-22 15:21                   ` Lucio De Re
2001-04-22 15:42                     ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-22 15:55                       ` Software Repository
2001-04-22 13:26             ` Lucio De Re
2001-04-22 16:00               ` Dan Cross
2001-04-22 16:13                 ` Lucio De Re
2001-04-22 22:25                   ` Dan Cross
2001-04-22 16:18                 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-22 16:33                   ` Lucio De Re
2001-04-22 16:46                     ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-22 22:14                   ` Dan Cross
2001-04-22 22:16                     ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-22 22:25                     ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-22 22:32                     ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-23 19:31                       ` Dan Cross
2001-04-20 14:52 nemo
2001-04-20 15:11 ` Lucio De Re
2001-04-21 14:34 jmk
2001-04-21 19:03 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-22 16:12 rsc
2001-04-22 16:17 ` Lucio De Re
2001-04-22 23:52 rsc
2001-04-23  4:26 ` Lucio De Re
2001-04-23 19:33   ` Dan Cross
2001-04-23 19:32 ` Dan Cross

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