On Wed, 13 Jan 2016, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
* Among the first free operating systems to use CVS shortly after it's debut.Also the last. :-/
Hehe, true. I still dig CVS though. I tried switching to Mercurial and SVN before and after a few merge nightmares I went back to CVS. I think it's a bit underrated, but my guess is you have WAY more experience with it than I do, and thus a lot more battle scars. I'm only using it for myself and the true test of a VCS is working with others (.... merging THEIR code, hehe).
What do you think folks will settle on for NetBSD? I've had these kind of discussions at companies I've worked at and the only result was a huge s**tfight between the devs yelling about how much their VCS rocked and how crappy the other guys was and how badly it messed up this or that merge/branch/release operation. Then in the final analysis I noticed that the people in the back of the room who just shrugged and kept their mouths shut were our superstar coders. The thought occurred to me that those guys like coding better than arguing about their favorite VCS. There was an important lesson in that for me, personally.
Still, it'd be interesting if any of the NetBSD gods discussed the future of VCS for the project, but if it degenerates into a gorillas throwing poo, don't blame me. :-)
-Swift