When will be CVS replaced by modern version control system?

[Les Mikesell]

Tomas Janousek wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 09:52:01PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>>  On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 07:38:41PM +0100, Till Maas wrote next:
>>> "cvs diff" makes afaik a network connection, which makes it very slow compared 
>>> to a modern vcs. 
>> Modern vcs requires additional space for this operation.
>> And second, I doubt in usefull status of this feature. IMHO, in practice (another
>> words 'very often') you need to make diff between vcs' *.spec and current.
>> You just make copy *.spec to *.spec.orig and use simple diff command.
> 
> Well, in practice, I sometimes need a whole patchset from some old history of
> the specfile. This is practically impossible with cvs, so I keep a git mirror
> of the entire cvs directory, anyway.

If you run cvsweb (now viewvc) on the cvs repository it is easy to 
cherry-pick any file/revision you want or diff between any committed 
versions through the browser interface.

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   Les Mikesell
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