On Apr 14, 2005, at 3:32 PM, Neil Schneider wrote:
In this vein I have set up RCS directories for most things I've changed from CLI. I think it's probably a good idea, since we have multiple people doing admin work and if you check in your changes, you can also comment what you changed. It requires some discipline among those doing the work, I added a reminder to MOTD and turned on motd in sshd so everyone sees it when they login.
I'd really rather this be in CVS instead of RCS (personally, I'd rather it were in arch or darcs, but I want to avoid the bikeshed).
RCS is old enough and unused enough that people no longer consider the implications.
CVS is the common case, so things like Apache, PHP, mod_**** all try to eject warning messages when you do something like share your source directory or CVS directory by accident using the web server. In addition, practically every editor on the planet now has CVS bindings so people don't have to remember the subtleties involved in not screwing up the repository. Also, CVS pulls require fewer locks than RCS
Storing this stuff on a local partition with CVS avoids all the pserver headache. Placing it in a central repository allows someone to pull an archive by copying just the CVS directory (this makes migration a *lot* simpler).
-a
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