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From: Michael Olson <mwolson@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: dVCS vs. CVS
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:46:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877iil5916.fsf@grepfind.mwolson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87k5mlgsqg.fsf@member.fsf.org


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Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:

> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
>
> Hi Alan,
>
>>> So basically the only difference is that you have to commit to your
>>> local repository.  As long as you don't use more advanced functions
>>> of the dVCS, there's nothing more complicated.
>>
>> Sorry, but no.  What makes it complicated are all the other things
>> that you don't want to use.  The things that are there, but you are
>> forced to ignore.
>
> You can shoot yourself in the foot with CVS, too.  But it's easy to
> give non-programmers a recipe how they can work with a dVCS as well as
> it is possible with CVS now.

Even for programmers, a recipe for how to use the current dVCS is
useful.  Every one of the projects I maintain has its own quickstart
guide for how to use git, tailored to the location of the repository for
each project, and its active branches.

Here they are:

 - http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/ErcDevelopment
 - http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/MuseDevelopment
 - http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/PlannerDevelopment

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-08  2:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-06 14:01 dVCS vs. CVS Bastien
2008-01-07 15:23 ` Yavor Doganov
2008-01-07 16:03   ` Tassilo Horn
2008-01-07 21:00     ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-01-07 22:45       ` Tassilo Horn
2008-01-08  2:46         ` Michael Olson [this message]
2008-01-08  9:28     ` Yavor Doganov
2008-01-08 12:59       ` Miles Bader
2008-01-07 16:05   ` David Kastrup
2008-01-07 21:52     ` Bastien
2008-01-07 21:59     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-01-07 22:19       ` David Kastrup
2008-01-08  8:57         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-01-09 11:37           ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-07 22:33       ` Bastien

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