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Re: what's missing from CVS? extending CVS?



"Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost> writes:
> I saw another email said:
>
>> Here is a preliminary list of requirements for a version control
>> system for NetBSD.
>   
> Can we also list which of the requirements are missing from CVS?
>  
> Maybe a temporary or long term fix is to extend CVS?

I don't think, architecturally, CVS can handle the requirements.

CVS will never have easy/fast branching because branching requires
that you touch every file in the repo. It is difficult to imagine how
CVS would grow easy rename support or other features, either.

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Perry E. Metzger                perry%piermont.com@localhost


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