[H-GEN] F-king CVS!

[Raymond Smith]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Raymond Smith <raymonds at uq.net.au>)

On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Chris Ryan wrote:
> We're using CVS here for a number of largish projects.  In general,
> when you get used to CVS, it works quite well.  The biggest
> hassle I've had with it is permissions - if the developers for a 
> project are not within the same group, it can be a nightmare.  
> Disciplined use of 'newgrp' before playing with the CVS is a 
> good idea.

It is quite possible that this has been part of our problems as the
project in question involves two groups (because each project id has a
corresponding group). To answer Bruce's question our project is in the
order of FreeBSD (ie, hundreds of megabytes of CVSed stuff).

I think my problem with CVS is that it is not robust enough when it comes
to user error. This is inexcusable for version control sofware where
data integrity must be paramount, and you are going to have inexperienced
developers. In this case the trade-off between power and hand-holding
should lean towards hand-holding.

Cheers,

Raymond
(Who between a disk crashes and DAT tape failures is two weeks of
 code short and doesn't need hassles from version control.)

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raymond at humbug.org.au              The early bird catches the worm, 
                                       but the second mouse eats the cheese


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