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From: Ralf Corsepius <ralf.corsepius@rtems.org>
To: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: GIT and CVS
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 15:04:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E991976.8070008@rtems.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <09787EF419216C41A903FD14EE5506DD030C1CA128@AUSX7MCPC103.AMER.DELL.COM>

On 10/14/2011 05:02 PM, Paul_Koning@Dell.com wrote:
> The mail string subject is GIT vs CVS, but a lot of the discussion seems to be "replace CVS by something better" -- and the debate is on whether GIT is the right replacement or something else is.

The debate should not be about GIT vs. CVS but about which
"VCS caters gdb's developers' needs"
and about which
"VCS caters the gdb project's technical needs"
best.

> For the most part, my opinion is that anything at all (other than SCCS) is a *massive* improvement on CVS,
Basically agreed, except that "everything comes at a price".

That said, though most VCSes have aspects where they are superior to 
CVS, I haven't seen any which didn't also introduce regressions.

> All things being equal I like SVN, but I get the impression that this isn't the majority opinion (even though GCC uses it).
Well, I feel, due to git/bzr/hg etc., SVN is currently experiencing the 
same fate, CVS experienced when SVN was new.

It was nice, when it was new, it had its time, but it also was largely 
hyped then and now is gradually fading away, because people now are 
considering git/bzr/hg to be superior (and are hyping it ;) )

Ralf


  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-15  5:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-13 19:37 Phil Muldoon
2011-10-13 20:21 ` Joseph S. Myers
2011-10-13 20:55   ` Phil Muldoon
2011-10-13 21:33     ` DJ Delorie
2011-10-13 21:44       ` Phil Muldoon
2011-10-13 21:43     ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2011-10-13 21:51       ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-10-13 22:08         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-13 22:25           ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-10-13 22:41             ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2011-10-13 22:44             ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2011-10-14 10:31             ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-13 22:19         ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2011-10-13 22:45           ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-10-13 23:37             ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2011-10-14  5:56               ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-10-14  6:51                 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2011-10-13 23:03       ` Phil Muldoon
2011-10-13 23:51         ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2011-10-14  6:01           ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-10-14  6:52             ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2011-10-14  7:01               ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-10-14  7:13                 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2011-10-14 15:39                 ` Joseph S. Myers
2011-10-14 15:49                   ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-10-13 21:51     ` Joseph S. Myers
2011-10-13 21:59       ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-10-13 22:08         ` Joseph S. Myers
2011-10-13 22:17         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-14  5:03           ` Joel Brobecker
2011-10-14  8:04             ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-13 23:14       ` Phil Muldoon
2011-10-13 23:56         ` Joseph S. Myers
2011-10-14  6:04           ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-10-13 21:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-13 23:20   ` Phil Muldoon
2011-10-14  8:13     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-14 10:23       ` Mark Kettenis
2011-10-14 10:55         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-14 14:09           ` Li, Rongsheng
2011-10-14 12:54         ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-10-14 13:07           ` Jonas Maebe
2011-10-14 14:26           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-14 14:32             ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-10-14 15:05             ` Phil Muldoon
2011-10-14 15:21               ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-14 14:52         ` Phil Muldoon
     [not found]           ` <83zkh3k419.fsf@gnu.org>
2011-10-14 15:47             ` Jonas Maebe
2011-10-14 16:12             ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-14 16:20             ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-14 16:25               ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-14 17:06                 ` Matt Rice
2011-10-14 17:25                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-11 21:00         ` Steinar Bang
2011-11-12  8:30           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-12 15:30             ` Steinar Bang
2011-10-14  5:10 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-10-14 15:38   ` Joseph S. Myers
2011-10-14 12:36 ` André Pönitz
2011-10-14 14:19   ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-14 15:02     ` Phil Muldoon
2011-10-14 15:16       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-14 16:59     ` André Pönitz
2011-10-14 14:58   ` Phil Muldoon
2011-10-14 15:02     ` Paul_Koning
2011-10-16 15:04       ` Ralf Corsepius [this message]
2011-10-14 16:10     ` André Pönitz
2011-11-11 22:50 ` Pedro Larroy
2011-11-12  8:28   ` Steinar Bang
2011-11-13  0:05     ` John Hein
2011-11-15 15:02   ` Tom Tromey
2011-11-16 16:59     ` Christopher Faylor

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