On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 02:02:51PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > Quoting Chris Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >>A very important feature for me is that the repository format stills > >>allows > >>me to extract the latest version of things if it gets corrupted. I'm > >>not sure SVN meets that criterion, but CVS does. That was the main > >>motivation for us moving from SCCS to RCS before CVS came out. > > > >before CVS came out?! You've .. um... been around a while, eh? :) > > How young ARE you? Even /I/ remember the time before CVS.
:) Too young to have been worrying about version control software in 1986. (or was it earlier?) > -derek > > PS: I don't need to google. I very well understand different SCMs and I > very > much understand the differences between something like SVN and something > like > Bitkeeper. I still think your arguments are irrelevant for the gnucash > project, and all you're doing is wasting time, bandwidth, and meritocracy > points. That's a bit dismissive don't you think? :( You probably don't mean to sound like an arrogant elitist, but it does sort of come across that way. It kind of makes me want to respond like others have [1], but I want to remain constructive. -chris [1] http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2001-July/004343.html > -- > Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory > Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) > URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH > [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
