[Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope-Coders] Re: [Zope-Checkins] CVS: Zope3/src/ZConfig/tests - test_schema.py:1.10.2.1

[Shane Hathaway]

(Removed cross-post to zope3-dev.)

Toby Dickenson wrote:
> On Thursday 13 February 2003 6:01 am, Andreas Jung wrote:
> 
> 
>>>  - The "backmerged" changes obscure the intent of the branch:  it is
>>>    now impossible to use the CVS machinery to tell just what changed
>>>    on the branch.
>>
>>Sometimes backmerging is necessary when the HEAD has changed a lot and
>>when you are not able/allowed to merge stuff back to the HEAD.
> 
> 
> In this case I prefer to create a new branch from the current head, merge the 
> old branch into it, then forget about the old branch. 

Maybe we could get CVS to send batches of emails that all have the same 
log message as a single email.  That would reduce the noise considerably.

Should we consider alternatives to CVS?  Subversion, being free and the 
intended successor to CVS, is attractive, but Bitkeeper seems to solve 
*all* the troubles we're running into.  This chart is amazing:

http://www.bitkeeper.com/Sales.BitKeeper.html

(Let's *not* discuss the Bitkeeper license here, though!)

Shane