Re: CVS is dead

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Les Mikesell escribió:

CVS has problems caused by all of the history being kept in a single file (it doesn't understand directory operations like renames), but the

Oh, and the fact that commits are not atomic so that if two chagesets collide (well, CVS doesn't have notion of changeset, only of single file changes) very bad things can happen (one changeset locks a file that the other changeset has to update) and you get a corrupt copy that has to be fixed.

Subversion, git and Mercurial (and others) addressed this issue adding atomicity to the chagesets (see that with these VCS files don't have version there are changeset versions).

up side is that you can track development 'forwards' from any point.

Uhh???

$ hg up -r SOME_OLD_REV

(same with svn or git-update).

With svn, there's no way to start from an earlier tag and follow future tags/branches of that same file.

What? Les do you really know what you're talking about?

This must be even worse in distributed VC's where the changes might not even exist in your copy of the repository. Doesn't it bother you to know you might be repeating someone else's mistakes because you can't track all the other changes from a given point?

What mistake if it's not in the repository?

The same thing would happen with CVS if you were coding without commiting to the main server. Nobody will be able to know what you are doing. Same if your coworkers don't update regularly. How can they know what you fixed?

In distributed VCS you use pull and push for this.

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