Okay, Peter and James, I stand corrected. When I did a 'man cvs' on my
FreeBSD box, the first sentence said "CVS is a front end to the rcs(1)
revision control system...", which matched what I'd always known about it,
so I didn't question whether things might have changed. (I've always
thought of Perforce that way as well, since back before it even was
Perforce, that was what it was.) But doing a 'cvs -version' on my old
FreeBSD shows it at 1.8.1, so clearly it's a bit out-of-date (guess I
should try to be better about doing OS upgrades :) Doing 'man cvs' on a
more up-to-date FreeBSD box, the first sentence says simply "CVS is a
version control system...", and the version for that one is 1.10.7.
As for "Subversion" -- sounds alot like Perforce (which is always my SCM
tool of choice, so it sounds good to me -- although I'm not sure how good
it'll sound to them :)
Diane
--- James Duncan Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 12/27/00 5:55 PM, "Diane Holt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > --- Peter Vogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> BTW, CVS really isn't an RCS wrapper (nor, I believe, is PerForce)
> >> rather it re-uses a fairly well-proven delta+storage format from
> >> RCS. Tagging, as well as several other features are not RCS
> >> compliant.
> >
> > Actually, no, CVS does sit on top of RCS. And Perforce more or less
> does
> > (although they refer to it as a "high-performance reimplentation of
> RCS).
> > Afterall, why reinvent the version-control "wheel"? -- it's all the
> rest
> > of the aspects of SCM that distinguishes the various tools.
>
> Though I seem to recall that both systems could replace RCS with
> something
> else -- well, maybe not command line CVS, but pserver CVS certainly
> could.
> Not that it would be that useful... I'm personally looking forward to
> Subversion. :)
>
> http://subversion.tigris.org/index.html
>
> .duncan
>
> --
> James Duncan Davidson
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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