Re: CVS should die (was: Possible make_oidjoins_check ...)

Steve Crawford <scrawford@pinpointresearch.com>

From: Steve Crawford <scrawford@pinpointresearch.com>

To: David Helgason <david@uti.is>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>, Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches@postgresql.org>, Gavin Sherry <swm@linuxworld.com.au>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

Date: 2004-11-09T22:56:54Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

> This doesn't really answer the question of what tool Postgres might
> change to, but it seems that Subversion is a good tool one should
> consider. And by golly, CVS is bad. Just consider the cons – having
> to forbid renames in all but the most necessary cases – it just
> invites cruft into any project.

Interesting reading:
http://better-scm.berlios.de/comparison/comparison.html
http://zooko.com/revision_control_quick_ref.html

Cheers,
Steve