Re: Problems using CVS transparently

[Sonam Chauhan]

Yuval Rotem wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of
> Sonam Chauhan
> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 7:46 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Problems using CVS transparently
>
> ...
> Basically I need CVS only for versioning capabilities. Before a major
> release,
> I'd like to do something like this (params are wrong - I have no idea)
>    "cvs -tag -recurse -tag_name "Release Number 9" <souce-controlled-dir>
>
> I could then use CVS to restore the directory or even specific file to
> previous
> release checkpoints.
> ...
>
> -----End of Original Message
>
> If that's all you need, is it really worth the trouble of integrating with
> CVS? Why not just tar all your files at each release point and keep it
> somewhere? Whenever you want you can extract a file, a directory or the
> whole tree, diff between releases, etc.


Tarring an entire directory can be wasteful since the directories have code and 
data.

CVS is more efficient at storage (IIRC, even with binary files, it only stores 
new copies if the file has changed. And much of the code is text)


> (Personally I would rather use a good source control system and some other
> tool for deployment, but I guess that's not an option here).


Hmm, do you have some recommendations for some good tools?

Sonam


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