Re: CVS opinions

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Author: Kevin Brown
Date:  
To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: CVS opinions
Don Calfa wrote:

> What is everyone's opinion on CVS? I've heard a lot of bad yet it's
> still widely used.
>
> I have a situation where we are currently using Microsoft VSS which also
> seems to be part of Server 2003 now. The developers 'hate' VSS and want
> something else. Their history with other Source Control systems also
> have poor reviews from them. None of them have used CVS so CVS sounds
> attractive to them. The other attractive note about CVS is that our Mac
> clients can now have source control.
>
> I've been given a 'go' to investigate CVS, do some installations,
> backups, catastrophic failures of server, restores, etc...
> I'd like to see some opinions on it because I've never heard "CVS is
> great!". Either we go ahead and convert all our VSS to CVS or just put
> up with VSS.
>
> If we go with CVS, I can justify getting a new server and also have
> Postfix running on it to get rid of our spam.


I have no experience with this package, but take a look at:
http://subversion.tigris.org/

They just released version 1.0
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