[sabayon-dev] RFC: switching to CVS

2013-04-01 Thread SÅ‚awomir Nizio
Hello all, As you may know, Sabayon uses git for its repositories. It is a good version control system: it is fast, has really good support for branching, support for rewriting history (which has good use cases) and is pretty well known among VCSs). However, there is nothing without

Re: [sabayon-dev] RFC: switching to CVS

2013-04-01 Thread Steven Cristian
The history could be kept anyway on the web. I will post soon another reply on CVS. On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Fabio Erculiani lx...@sabayon.org wrote: The idea looks good to me. I also wonder, do we really need history at all? We are supposed to know what and why we did modifications

Re: [sabayon-dev] RFC: switching to CVS

2013-04-01 Thread Danilo Pianini
Agree. We could adopt as a rule to leave a comment when changing something, and just use a FTP server. 2013/4/1 Fabio Erculiani lx...@sabayon.org The idea looks good to me. I also wonder, do we really need history at all? We are supposed to know what and why we did modifications in the past.

Re: [sabayon-dev] RFC: switching to CVS

2013-04-01 Thread SÅ‚awomir Nizio
On Mon, 1 Apr 2013 18:36:04 +0200 Danilo Pianini danilo.pian...@gmail.com wrote: Agree. We could adopt as a rule to leave a comment when changing something, and just use a FTP server. I disagree: CVS provides history for free anyway* so it's not a big deal; and it is easier to collaborate this