Re: CVS vs VSS (Andrew Kimpton)
Re: CVS vs VSS (Andrew Kimpton)
- Subject: Re: CVS vs VSS (Andrew Kimpton)
- From: "b.bum" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 13:52:55 -0800
On Feb 14, 2004, at 11:51 PM, Grant Jacobs wrote:
While we are on this topic is there anyone who can comment on the
*experience* of using subversion (and who is also not "biased" by
being on their development team!).
The news stories on the web are giving subversion good press, but I
prefer to hear about experience rather than prospects... In principle
it sounds an improvement on CVS, but can anyone comment on the reality
and how it compares with the other products mentioned in this thread?
The subversion website indicates that a candidate release is out and
that the first full release is due later this month.
I have been using Subversion for a little while now. I have used CVS
for the past 13 years or so for NeXT, then Apple, development work.
At one point in time, I was a huge proponent of CVS. As my knowledge
of software development processes has grown, I have come to realize
that CVS is utter crap. The two features of CVS are that it is open
source and it has been ported to just about every platform. Beyond
that, CVS is garbage.
Subversion is so much better in so many ways. From a project
management and configuration management perspective, Subversion is
wonderful. CVS's notions of branches and tags is fundamentally
broken. Hell, CVS's notion of multi-file commits is fundamentally
broken, too.
Subversion fixes all that.
b.bum
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