Re: CVS archive on FAT partition

[Holger]

address@hidden wrote:
> I am working with the some text files on several different computers,
> different OS (NT and Linux), some of them are firewalled, so CVS-Server
> is not easily useable. For synchronizing the work, I am thinking to use
> a CVS archive on FAT parttition on a USB Stick.  Does someone have
> experience with this? Is it possible to have the archive on a FAT
> partition? What should I observe?

Hmm, sounds a bit like you need bzr instead. Bzr is designed for
disconnected development.
http://bazaar-vcs.org/

It has fixed a couple of the annoyances that CVS suffer from but of
course also has a few drawbacks.

The cmd line interface is pretty much like CVS so the transition is
easy - I use both CVS and BZR.

Advantages:
- works well without central repository
- works fine in "disconnected" state on your local box
- meta data is also revision controlled
- that includes permissions and file names
- revision numbers are for the whole module, not the individual files

Disadvantages:
- requires python
- centralized respository is not so well supported yet
- does not have the amount of 3rd party tools that CVS has (GUIs and
WEB intrgration etc)
- it's quite new (though I find it also quite stable)

HTH
Holger