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

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry%piermont.com@localhost>]

Brian Ginsbach <ginsbach%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:40:50AM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>
> Granted I haven't used it but CVSNT seems to have rename support
> and some of the other features that have been claimed difficult
> for CVS to gain..

CVSNT != CVS.

My understanding is that the way they've achieved the new features is
by totally altering the architecture. The next version (with atomic
commits) is to use a database back end, getting rid of the RCS files
entirely.

Perry
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