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Why not Subversion (aka SVN)? Almost every open source project moved from the older CVS to Subversion around 2005. About 2-4 years ago some moved on to Git (or
by frik 12y ago
Why not Subversion (aka SVN)? Almost every open source project moved from the older CVS to Subversion around 2005. About 2-4 years ago some moved on to Git (or Mercurial (Hg)). Subversion has several advantages and fixed issues that CVS had, beside that it is somewhat similar - contrary to Git/Hg.
- lotsofmangos 12y agoPresumably CVS works for them. They had used it successfully for 5 years before Subversion existed and are presumably well acquainted with its foibles. And all systems have foibles, so if you are used to one set of them and it is working for you, then fixing things that aren't would seem to be a much better use of time, rather than following the whims of fashion to court those developers who will only help if they don't have to learn another versioning system.
- bandrami 12y agoWhat is something the OpenBSD team could accomplish with a different VCS that they are not doing now?0
- mrweasel 12y agoCVSWeb is fare nicer than anything I've seen for Git, Mecurial or Subversion. I'm not sure that's going to make anyone to move back to cvs though :-)