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Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: using DVCS
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Karsten Hilbert |
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Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: using DVCS |
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Tue, 5 Aug 2008 18:06:54 +0200 |
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On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 05:46:26PM +0200, Gour wrote:
> The other day, upon mentioning CVS, someone wrote me:
>
> "...cvs these days is about as hip as having toilet paper stuck to one's
> shoe. It can deter potential contributors just because it doesn't have
> a good "smell", so to speak."
The venerable CVS has ugly warts, no doubt. That's why I
consider switching a viable undertaking at all.
The difference between going from CVS to SVN vs going from
CVS to a dVCS is that SVN is "CVS done better" while dVCSs
are "CVS done right". The latter requires a paradigm shift
in thinking while the former just needs some getting used to
not-insignificantly better tools.
Karsten
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- [Gnumed-devel] Re: using DVCS, (continued)
- [Gnumed-devel] Re: using DVCS, Andreas Tille, 2008/08/04
- [Gnumed-devel] Re: using DVCS, Gour, 2008/08/05
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: using DVCS, Karsten Hilbert, 2008/08/05
- [Gnumed-devel] Re: using DVCS, Gour, 2008/08/05
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: using DVCS, Karsten Hilbert, 2008/08/05
- [Gnumed-devel] Bazaar branch(es)(was Re: using DVCS), Gour, 2008/08/05
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Bazaar branch(es)(was Re: using DVCS), Karsten Hilbert, 2008/08/05
- [Gnumed-devel] Re: Bazaar branch(es), Gour, 2008/08/06
- [Gnumed-devel] Re: using DVCS, Andreas Tille, 2008/08/05
- [Gnumed-devel] Re: using DVCS, Gour, 2008/08/05
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: using DVCS,
Karsten Hilbert <=
- [Gnumed-devel] Re: using DVCS, Gour, 2008/08/05
- [Gnumed-devel] Re: using DVCS, Gour, 2008/08/05
Re: [Gnumed-devel] using DVCS, Karsten Hilbert, 2008/08/03