On Friday 28 February 2003 12:55 pm, Brandon Craig Rhodes wrote: > Donald Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The cvs documentation is obtuse and hard to read. > > It might be more useful to say that the documentation is designed as a > reference - it will tell you everything there is to know about one > aspect of CVS, then progress to another.
True for some things. But, for example, CVS's peculiar vulnerability to NFS errors isn't touched on at all, despite it being a critical issue. And while the accepted wisdom on this list seems to be that vendor branches are a bad way to import someone else's sources, they're the specificly recommended technique in the doc. > This is useful if you > already know how CVS works, but far less tractable a resource to > actually learn CVS from. True. The Fogel book (http://cvsbook.redbean.com) does a better job of teaching, although it's too much like "CVS for Dummies" for my taste. -- Ross A. Patterson Chief Technology Officer CatchFIRE Systems, Inc. 5885 Trinity Parkway, Suite 220 Centreville, VA 20120 (703) 563-4164 _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
