On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 20:11:04 -0400 Matej Cepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andre Poenitz wrote: > > As a sidenote: RCS has been (sort of) superseded by CVS a dozen years > > ago which in turn is in the process of being superseded by SVN as far > > as I can tell. Things might be bearable on a single-user system, though. > > Aren't CVS (and even more SVN) kind of overkill for personal one-user > editing (which is what most people do with LyX)? I happily use RCS for all > my needs and I haven't found a reason why to switch to CVS (I do not know > much about SVN though). > In my opinion they are generally not an overkill, but that depends on what you are doing. I use CVS myself. The upside is that you can recursively update directories to see whats changed, checkout whole directory trees etc. Its main advantage over rcs for the single user is the ability to handle directory trees instead of single files (not sure about branches in rcs). central repository could be a bit more cumbersome for single use and you may not need the network update ability if you use a single computer. On the other hand a central repository allows for easier periodical backup of your data. As for networks, I work on two different computers in UNI (one a dual boot) and two machines at home, thats four I need to keep synchronized, so I just put cvs on my gateway computer and synchronize all my work through cvs. On the other hand I also do quite a bit of programing so handling multiple files, directory trees and branches is more of an issue for me also as a single user of the repository. > Matej > > -- > Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej > GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC > 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 > > There is no reason to suppose that most human beings are engaged > in maximizing anything unless it be unhappiness, and even this > with incomplete success. > -- Ronald Coase > Introduction to ``The Firm, the Market, and the Law'' > > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System at the Tel-Aviv University CC.
