On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 02:43:26PM -0700, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote:
> On Jun 4, 2006, at 8:53 AM, Lan Barnes wrote:
> 
> >CVS is so broken it is technically inferior to RCS.
> 
> That's funny, CVS is nothing more than a network-enabled RCS.  They  
> use the exact same internals.
> 
> :)
> 
> Gregory

I'm well aware of that. Actually, Tichy's rcs archive file structure is
used by several SCM tools, including SVN and Perforce (did you know
that?).

It's a good thing to do. Saves i-nodes/whatever in windoze. Well tested
code libraries. Pretty fast code reconstruction through reverse deltas.

But svn and Perforce use an ancillary data base (Berkeley DB in both
cases, I believe, for the hot back ups) to hold all the important data,
whereas cvs and rcs still store a lot of important stuff in the
overburdened archive files.

-- 
Lan Barnes
Linux Guy, SCM Specialist     
Tcl/Tk Enthusiast 


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