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Re: conversion to git
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Russ Allbery |
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Re: conversion to git |
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Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:04:59 -0700 |
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Ralf Corsepius <address@hidden> writes:
> On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 21:01 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I think in practice adoption drives portability more than the other way
>> around. I don't think CVS became popular because it was portable;
> Well, I think it became popular, because it had been and still IS lean,
> simple to use/administrate and matches the demands of most projects.
I'm fairly certain that's not the case. The primary advantage of CVS that
got people to switch to it was that it did considerably more than RCS and
had considerably more available administrative features and supported
multiuser development (in other words, was much fatter and was much more
complex to use, but did more).
As soon as something came along that was reasonably polished, did even
more, and was still free software, CVS started declining fast. A lot of
projects had a love/hate relationship with CVS long before there even was
a replacement, and some free software projects (Perl, for instance) even
went with proprietary systems because CVS was so limited. It's almost
impossible to find new projects these days that start with CVS instead of
at least Subversion.
--
Russ Allbery (address@hidden) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
- Re: conversion to git, (continued)
- Re: conversion to git, Eric Blake, 2007/09/19
- Re: conversion to git, Bob Friesenhahn, 2007/09/19
- Re: conversion to git, Bob Proulx, 2007/09/19
- Re: conversion to git, Russ Allbery, 2007/09/19
- Re: conversion to git, Bob Friesenhahn, 2007/09/19
- Re: conversion to git, Russ Allbery, 2007/09/20
- Re: conversion to git, Paul Smith, 2007/09/20
- Re: conversion to git, Warren Young, 2007/09/20
- Re: conversion to git, Paul Smith, 2007/09/20
- Re: conversion to git, Ralf Corsepius, 2007/09/20
- Re: conversion to git,
Russ Allbery <=
- Re: conversion to git, Ralf Corsepius, 2007/09/20
- Re: conversion to git, Russ Allbery, 2007/09/20
- Re: conversion to git, Ralf Corsepius, 2007/09/21
- Re: conversion to git, Andrej Prsa, 2007/09/21
- Re: conversion to git, Russ Allbery, 2007/09/21
- Re: conversion to git, Benoit SIGOURE, 2007/09/22
- Re: conversion to git, Eric Blake, 2007/09/22
- Re: conversion to git, Eric Blake, 2007/09/20
- Re: conversion to git, Bernd Jendrissek, 2007/09/20
- Re: conversion to git, Bob Proulx, 2007/09/20