Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like

[John S. Yates, Jr.]

On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 14:37:32 -0500, esr wrote:

> Do you have any idea of the kind of horrible shite CVS can
> land you in if you try something as basic as renaming a file?

Speaking from experience on multiple projects, a pernicious CVS
effect is to install a reluctance to rename.  This is tantamount
to banning any large scale refactoring.  And that is ultimately
extremely damaging to a long-lived code base under truly active
development.

/john