Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> over time, I've grown a bit irritated over the misfeatures of CVS,
> and I've been looking long and hard for something to use instead.

Ever since I discovered SCCS (my first SCM, 1980 or so?) I've been
trying to find something better...

I went from SCCS to RCS to CVS (as many people did). I didn't go (yet)
to SVN. I also worked with big commercial tools like
Continuus/Synergy.

There have been several 'improvements' for SCCS/RCS/CVS, but none of
them really survived. That's why I would be very careful selecting a
non-mainstream SCM.

Most problems I encountered in CVS (no atomic commits, no file/tree
state versioning, no offline working) seem to be dealt with in SVN. So
my question would be: what is it that makes SVN (the current
mainstream SCM in our part of the software-world) unsuitable, and
would it be feasible to improve SVN for that.

> 9 months ago, I stumbled upon monotone (see
> http://www.venge.net/monotone/), and it was basically love at first
> sight.

Looks nice. However, at a quick glance:
 - after years of development, it's still at a 0.xx version
 - single developer who doesn't seem to be very present at the mailing
   list
 - I cannot guess its maturaity. Any idea how many real project are
   actually using monotone? 

-- Johan

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