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From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann)
Subject: Re: Make CVS default revision controller
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 17:26:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <84smr780ju.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87he7ndpyx.fsf@kruhft.vc.shawcable.net

Burton Samograd <kruhft@hotmail.com> writes:

> I would reccomend just using RCS if you want that.  CVS is a bit picky
> sometimes and RCS offers most of the same features (CVS was built off
> of RCS initially).  Instead of storing in CVSROOT it just puts the
> version files in ./RCS directories, and provides full merging, version
> diffing, branching, etc.  Don't throw away old tools just so you can
> use trendy software when won't even need 10% of the features it
> provides.

FWIW, I use CVS for my config files.  Then it is very easy to use
them on different machines.  I love it.

But I use the symlink trick.  I wrote a Makefile that creates all the
necessary symlinks, and I use "make install" from time to time
whenever I think that the symlinks should be corrected.
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-22 15:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-20  8:35 Make CVS default revision controller marcuirl
2003-05-20  9:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-05-20 12:36   ` Niels Freimann
     [not found]   ` <mailman.6455.1053434411.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-05-22  8:51     ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-22 11:46       ` marcuirl
2003-05-22 13:53         ` Stefan Monnier
2003-05-22 15:24           ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-22 14:29         ` Burton Samograd
2003-05-22 15:26           ` Kai Großjohann [this message]
2003-05-22 17:21             ` Edward O'Connor
2003-05-22 22:35             ` Benjamin Rutt
2003-05-23  6:11               ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-22 14:58         ` Harald Maier
2003-05-22 15:22         ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-23  8:26           ` marcuirl
2003-05-23 11:48             ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-05-23 14:52             ` Stefan Monnier
2003-05-26  6:56               ` marcuirl

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