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From: Robert Anderson <rwa@alumni.princeton.edu>
Cc: emacs <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Gud lord!
Date: 07 Jun 2003 15:07:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1055023668.1517.46.camel@lan1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030607210527.GA20914@gnu.org>

On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 14:05, Miles Bader wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 09:43:25AM -0700, Robert Anderson wrote:
> > To be handcuffed by a revision control system which is unable to sanely
> > rename a file - in the year 2003 - seems absurd to me.
> 
> Please call back when there's actually a _stable_ and well-supported
> alternative; currently neither arch nor subversion are.

Define "stable."  I've been using arch without data loss for over a year
on a code base of over a half a million lines.

I'm also curious what you mean by "well supported."  I can't think of a
free software project in existence that has a more dedicated maintainer
than arch does.

> CVS may suck rocks in many ways, but changing this is not something to be
> done lightly.

Certainly not.  I wouldn't suggest a wholesale change to any system, not
matter how "stable."  I would suggest a gateway maintainer for a CVS
head "mirror" in an arch archive, with transition to arch happening
relatively slowly as people learn the system and its benefits at their
own pace.

http://arch.fifthvision.net/bin/view/Main/InteroperatingWithCVS

There is one legitimate complaint, however:  there is no Windows
support, and probably won't be anytime soon.

Bob

  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-07 22:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-07 15:37 Gud lord! Nick Roberts
2003-06-07 16:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-07 16:43   ` Robert Anderson
2003-06-07 16:47     ` Robert Anderson
2003-06-07 21:05     ` Miles Bader
2003-06-07 22:07       ` Robert Anderson [this message]
2003-06-07 22:35         ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-08  0:01           ` Robert Anderson
2003-06-08  0:19             ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-11 13:36             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-06-11 14:04               ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-06-12 21:15                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-06-12 22:37                   ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-06-11 14:32               ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-12  1:43                 ` Miles Bader
2003-06-12 15:30                   ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-12 15:54                     ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-07 23:47         ` Miles Bader
     [not found]           ` <1055032089.30724.114.camel@lan1>
2003-06-08  2:02             ` Miles Bader
2003-06-08  4:40               ` Robert Anderson
2003-06-12 17:49                 ` Per Abrahamsen
2003-06-08  2:19             ` Miles Bader
2003-06-07 22:59       ` yet another todo editing system Joe Corneli
2003-06-08  7:51         ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-06-08  8:52           ` Joe Corneli
2003-06-08 10:37             ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-06-08 12:32               ` Joe Corneli
2003-06-08 20:05                 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-09  7:29                   ` Joe Corneli
2003-06-09  7:34                     ` Miles Bader
2003-06-09  8:01                       ` Joe Corneli
2003-06-09  8:16                         ` Miles Bader
2003-06-09  9:27                     ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-09 10:54                       ` Joe Corneli
2003-06-09 11:41                     ` Alex Schroeder
2003-06-09 19:43                 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-06-08 12:48             ` Alex Schroeder
2003-06-09  0:21         ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-09 10:05           ` Joe Corneli
2003-06-09 10:29             ` Joe Corneli
2003-06-15 15:59             ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-16  1:44               ` Joe Corneli
2003-06-16 17:57                 ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-09  0:21     ` Gud lord! Richard Stallman
2003-06-09  1:23       ` Jonathan Walther
2003-06-09 23:00         ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-10  1:28           ` Robert Anderson
2003-06-10  1:53             ` Jonathan Walther
2003-06-11  0:24             ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-09 14:32       ` Robert Anderson
2003-06-10 12:21         ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-10 12:54           ` David Kastrup
2003-06-10 17:10             ` Jonathan Walther
2003-06-11  8:27             ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-09  7:51   ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-06-09  8:11     ` Miles Bader
2003-06-09  8:32       ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-06-09  8:42         ` Miles Bader
2003-06-09  8:56           ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-06-09 13:37         ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-09 14:07           ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-06-11 13:00             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-06-11 13:53               ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-06-09  0:21 ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-09  7:49 ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-06-09 19:29   ` Not arch (was Re: Gud lord!) Nick Roberts

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