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Re: time to be serious about dropping CVS
- From: Tristan Gingold <gingold at adacore dot com>
- To: Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>, gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 14:09:13 +0100
- Subject: Re: time to be serious about dropping CVS
- References: <20100101080137.GP2788@adacore.com> <4B472BDC.1030301@redhat.com>
On Jan 8, 2010, at 1:58 PM, Phil Muldoon wrote:
> On 01/01/2010 08:01 AM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> Happy New Year!
>>
>> Since I started using SVN, and even more so since I started using git,
>> I have found that using CVS is very inconvenient, bordering on unbearable.
>
> Beyond the usual arguments and cons about CVS, the one thing that
> really bites is that CVS always has to talk to a remote server.
[...]
Agreed.
> My preference is for GIT, simply because of the speed.
Sure.
I now always work on gdb.git (from git mirror) but still use CVS to do my commit. Using this approach
makes the switch much less necessary (IMHO).
Tristan.