[olug] CVS

[Mac Petras]

Well, considering the discussion about using CVS for sys config
files, perhaps CVS would do as well? I've looked into Subversion,
and while it sounds great.....the projects is not exactly moving
quickly. FWIW, my preference would be to run something known,
"tried/true", tested and well supported, so CVS seems to fit the
bill.....for me anyway......

Added to that, many apps are stored in CVS on the net. I'm always
running against the "you can get the most recent version from CVS
at.....", so no matter what, as Linux Admins, etc - I would think
knowing the basics would be good for anyone.....



William E. Kempf said:
>
> Mac Petras said:
>> I'm just starting to look at CVS, and that got me
>> thinking....
>>
>> Would this be a good topic for someone to present at the
>> next
>> OLUG meeting?
>
> If there's developers, they might be interested... though I
> suspect they'd already know enough about this topic.  For
> the rest of you, you'd be better served with a discussion
> about Subversion.  Subversion should be easier to deal with
> for newbies to SCM, since it doesn't have a lot of
> restrictions that are present in CVS (for instance,
> Subversion tracks directory changes as well as file changes,
> which is something that newbies expect and have a difficult
> time dealing with the CVS work arounds).
>
> Then again, Subversion isn't 1.0 yet (despite it's stability
> and use by many in production environments), so maybe
> there'd still be some interest in CVS...
>
> --
> William E. Kempf
>
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