(I should know better than to get into this...) On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 01:16:35AM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote: > It's hardly even noticably > more difficult to track the history across multiple files.
Greg, *that* statement is complete and utter crap. Or, please post the single *cvs* command that will display the full history (equivalent of 'cvs log') of an entity *accross* renames/moves. (I use the word "entity" because "file" allows an easy out: "If you rename it, it's not the same file".) Please post the appropriate *cvs* command that will merge a one-line non-conflicting change in a branched file into the version on the trunk that has been renamed. Yes, I can write scripts and add-ons to deal with these situations. Many of us have done so. But the whole rename/move issue with CVS *is* a weakness. The fact that it can't be corrected within the limitations of CVS's current design/implementation is doesn't change the fact that it's a weakness. Now, I *like* CVS. I find that it meets the needs of our small development team, and the cost is certainly right (for our situation and uses, the admin cost (counted in my time, which I, at least, think has some value) is pretty small). But it *does* have some weaknesses, and those weaknesses have influenced our processes, just like the strengths and weaknesses of any tool influence how you use it. We know the limitations and work around them. But denying the limitation exists is silly. Steve > > Quit being an idiot Paul and either shut up or talk only about the > things you actually have real live current experience with. > > -- > Greg A. Woods > > +1 416 218-0098; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Planix, Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; VE3TCP; Secrets of the Weird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > _______________________________________________ > Info-cvs mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs -- "I [..] am rarely happier then when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand. Ten seconds, I tell myself, is ten seconds. Time is valuable and ten seconds' worth of it is well worth the investment of a day's happy activity working out a way to save it". -- Douglas Adams, "Last Chance to See" _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
