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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] CVS and non-devs (again!)
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 14:43:32
Message-Id: 200401221543.21246.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] CVS and non-devs (again!) by Brad House
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4 On Thursday 22 January 2004 15:03, Brad House wrote:
5 > Correct me if I'm wrong, but the gentoo development community
6 > as a whole would probably have to switch to something other
7 > than CVS. In my experience from CVS, trying to merge back
8 > in changes from 2 different branches are nearly impossible (if
9 > we wanted to merge in changes from the 'unofficial' branch).
10 > Personally, I don't have time to learn some other system at this
11 > point in time, so I'd vote against this. Please correct me if
12 > I'm wrong on the merging front there, but I use it every day
13 > at work, and it's one of the things that gets to me most about
14 > CVS.
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16 I think that indeed subversion is superior to CVS, especially on the part
17 where you want to look at changesets and merging. Maybe we could test
18 subversion, but we might want to wait until the 1.0 version is released
19 for actual use (is going to be rather soon now)
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21 Paul
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[gentoo-dev] Re: CVS and non-devs (again!) duchier@×××××××××.de
Re: [gentoo-dev] CVS and non-devs (again!) Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] CVS and non-devs (again!) Kurt Lieber <klieber@g.o>