Messages in this thread | | | From | (Zygo Blaxell) | Subject | CVS IS EVIL! | Date | 29 Jan 1999 13:42:04 -0500 |
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In article <199901262245.RAA07455@rushlight.kf8nh.apk.net>, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <allbery@kf8nh.apk.net> wrote: >In message <19990126141244.A217@pm-ppp124.triton.net>, Adam Scislowicz >writes: >+----- >| Now would be a good time to move the kernel to a CVS tree. GNOME, Mozilla, GG >+--->8 > >You should see the horror-script I have to use to check things out from GNOME >anonymous CVS. CVS appears to have a *lot* of problems with submodules, [...] >I suggest we move to something sensible instead of CVS. Please.
((M-x rant-mode) (M-x asbestos-suit-mode))
Would every random person who says "throw XYZ into CVS" _please_ check out a copy of CVS from Cyclic Software (yes, they have an anonymous CVS server) and _fix the known bugs in CVS_?
There are problems in CVS that were documented at least four years ago (and probably existed years before that) which _still_ have not been resolved.
Try checking out a branch revision on a given date. Try _not_ diffing a tagged revision of a removed file. Try integrating CVS with a real problem tracking system. Try obsoleting an intermediate revision of a binary file (OK, that last one has a reasonable workaround, but it's a real surprise to irretrievably corrupt your repository that way...)
If you can get any two of those to happen, you will fix four-year-old CVS bugs.
-- Zygo Blaxell, Linux Engineer, Corel Corporation, zygob@corel.ca (work), zblaxell@furryterror.org (play). It's my opinion, I tell you! Mine! All MINE! Size of 'cvs diff' between 'cvs.winehq.com' and 'linuxmaster' as of Fri Jan 29 13:23:00 EST 1999: 44635 line(s)
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