Re: When will CVS be replaced by modern version control system?

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On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 14:10:38 +0100
Nils Philippsen <nphilipp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > a) quick operations by avoiding round-trips to a remote server if
> > not necessary
> > b) easy branching and merging
> > c) atomic operations
> > d) co-maintainers (or maintainer apprentices) wouldn't need commit
> > access to the main repository
> > e) ability to do embargoed stuff like security fixes before they're
> > public  
> 
> f) ability to rename things, especially handy for re-worked patches in
> our context

I don't disagree that those things are nice with DVCS.  What I question
is the amount of times they're necessary to warrant the extra
complexity of a DVCS thrown at every user.

And still I continue to hear just features of dvcs, but not applied to
a workflow for our Package vcs.

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