Re: moving away from CVS

[Marco Gerards]

Johan Rydberg <address@hidden> writes:

> Marco Gerards <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> I agree; I think there are far better replacements for CVS. Personally I
>>> would highly recommend mercurial, but I suppose everybody has their own
>>> preferences. I noticed that Savannah, where the GRUB tree is currently
>>> hosted, offers subversion support...
>>
>> I like subversion because it solves most problems, while I do not have
>> to learn something new.
>
> Subversion still does not track merges, which I think was the original
> reason to why this discussion started.  
>
> Personally I would rather use bzr, but I know our maintainer does not
> like it that much (because of the lack of commit hooks.)  But I
> wouldn't mind switching to subversion, keep in mind that it will not
> be any better than CVS.

It is better than CVS, but just not in this specific case.  Anyways, I
do not mind that much about using bzr.  Almost anything is better than
CVS. :-)

--
Marco