[H-GEN] CVS is very very slow ...

[Greg Black]

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Anthony Towns wrote:

| On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 03:37:41PM +1000, Greg Black wrote:
| > I do agree that
| > we (meaning the software community) need something that's an
| > order of magnitude better than the current tools for version
| > control --
| 
| You could also try BitKeeper (commercial, apparently of the order of
| $2k/seat; free license is available although the restrictions may be
| overly onerous depending on your needs), or arch (free, /bin/sh based
| version control system, utterly ghastly).

I won't use commercial software for any important infrastructure
tools (except commercial stuff that I wrote and have the rights
to) because I never want to find myself using some orphaned
system.  This is the real reason I don't accept Word files for
documents -- they are only useful as long as Word, in the right
version(s), is still around for any random platform.  And I'll
never use arch.

| I'm inclined to be fairly optimistic about subversion, for no good reason.

That's an interesting data point for me.  You're the first
qualified person I've heard make such a statement.  I'll keep an
eye on it.  But, after what I regard as the fiasco with my
change to CVS, I won't do anything with subversion for at least
a couple more years.

| (If you just want to play, it looks like you can just use local access
| to the repository with file:/ urls, rather than worry about setting up
| apache2 and so on)

I didn't know that.  It might be a useful feature for playing.
Although I would only want a tool that was useful across a
network via modem lines for actual real world use.

Greg

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