begin  quoting Lan Barnes as of Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 11:53:47AM -0700:
[snip]
> Again, I would strongly recommend that you put CVS out of your mind for
> life.

Normally, Lan, I think that you're generally full of wisdom and useful
insights.  However, when you dispense this sort of advice, I wonder what
you're smoking. . .

>       Use subversion for real projects, RCS for simple applications. CVS
> belongs in the ash heap with SCCS.
 
CVS is at least as good as RCS, and generally better.

Subversion still hasn't reached the point where I'll let it touch my
code.  The Subversion developers seem to have taken the mythical
arrogance of the CVS developers as a baseline.

> RCS and a simple cron script can do a good enough job of automatically
> backing up a set of files. I'll share the script I use when I get back
> to work Monday if you want.

I've used RCS for this sort of thing, and it's not uncommon for RCS to
cause problems.  Forget the -l when saving the changes to passwd?  Whoops!

> CVS ... ack, gag, cough!

CVS would be fine.  I suspect that darcs or arch might work as well,
except that a history-based system is more appropriate than a patch-based
system.

-Stewart "SVN is saddled with featurism and all-the-world thinking." Stremler

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