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 More options Nov 26 2003, 10:13 am
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From: lawrence.jo...@eds.com
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:13:02 GMT
Local: Wed, Nov 26 2003 10:13 am
Subject: Re: Versioning CVS or RCS
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TLOlczyk <olczyk2...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> From what I have heard most of the CVS developers have gone over
> to Subversion.

You've heard incorrectly.

> Fact is that for a long time CVS development just stagnated, sometime
> around 1995/6. In fact I remember a "Windows" bug. If you sent a ^M
> accidentally in a file, it would treat the file as a Unix file even on
> Windows. So when you updated every line ended in ^M. Fixed that
> one.      

Your memory also seems to be faulty -- no such bug ever existed (CVS has
never inferred the file format from the contents).  Yes, development has
in a sense stagnated, but that's because CVS *works*.  If it ain't
broke, don't fix it.

> Consider the first problem. What do you do if you mark files
> as deleted in a new version, with repositories created by the
> old versions?

A problem CVS solved long ago.  ("Death" support was added in CVS 1.5,
the current stable release is 1.11.9.)

-Larry Jones

Even if lives DID hang in the balance, it would depend on whose they were.
-- Calvin


 
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