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Re: Migrating from CVS to RCS


From: Sung-taek Lim
Subject: Re: Migrating from CVS to RCS
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 14:15:26 +0900

Thank you Kaz and Larray for your answer.

I'm also sorry about the fact that the other members of my team decided

to unify the source management using rcs because none other than I

was  familiar to cvs.

"Kaz Kylheku" <address@hidden> wrote in message
news:address@hidden
> In article <address@hidden>, Sung-taek Lim wrote:
> >Hello, I want a software project to migrate from CVS to RCS.
>
> This is an extremely misguided idea. What is the reason for doing a
> thing like that?
>
> >Just creating symbolic link to cvs repository as 'RCS' seemed to be
enough.
> >
> >But the problem occurs when I check out a branch revision with symbolic
> >name.
>
> [ snip ]
>
> >Can anyone please explain about this? Thanks in advance.
>
> The explanation is that RCS isn't CVS, so why do you expect it to be
> able to deal with every nuance of the data format used by CVS?
>
> Branching in CVS is substantially different.
>
> If RCS could do everything that CVS can, why would people use CVS?




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