Re: CVS opinions

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Author: Chris Gehlker
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: CVS opinions

On Feb 23, 2004, at 9:54 AM, Don Calfa wrote:

> What is everyone's opinion on CVS? I've heard a lot of bad yet it's
> still widely used.


Subversion 1.0 was released yesterday. Fixes the bad. Check it out.
>
> 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 would expect that one could simply substitute Subversion for CVS in
XCode and keep trucking but I haven't actually done that yet.

> 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.


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