Re: CVS and Jar files: Should you import Jar into the Repository? Why or why not

[Noel Yap]

--- Lee Sau Dan <address@hidden>
wrote:
>     Christian> Well since I come from a windows
> enviroment, cvs is
>     Christian> mainly used as a version control
> system, diff/merge is
>     Christian> not used that much by us (yet) and we
> use cvs because
>     Christian> was the most cost-effective we could
> find..
> 
> Most CVS  users will disagree with  you.  For me,
> the  main reason for
> using CVS/RCS is to be  able to diff/merge between
> versions.  If these
> operations are  not needed, I'd simply store 
> different versions under
> different file/directory names, so that  I can
> access any version much
> more directly (no need to checkout/update first).

I agree with Christian.  If all you need is diff/merge
capabilities, you already have diff, diff3, and patch.

> Windows/DOS  gives you a  very very  very confined 
> view of  the giant
> world.

That's why I use Cygwin when on Windoze.

Noel


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