When will CVS be replaced by modern version control system?

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Mon Nov 12 14:35:42 UTC 2007


On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:25:32 +0100
Matej Cepl <mcepl at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:12:43 +0100, Christopher Aillon scripst:
> > But also keep in mind that much of the current package workflow has
> > been defined by the limitations of CVS. Our current faux-branching
> > scheme was in part done because of CVS, for example.
> > [...]
> > Returning to your original question, which I'll paraphrase as "what do
> > we gain by moving away from CVS?"  Not much.  A small number of users
> > will take advantage of the features that the new VCS gives them.
> 
> I think the thing we need to loose is the box where we keep our work-
> flow. So for example, could somebody explain why in the time or DVCSs we 
> still have tarball-based packaging?

So you can verify that you're using the upstream source as it was
released, and not some custom fork of the code base.

josh




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