[Zope-Coders] CVS alternatives

[Shane Hathaway]

Chris McDonough wrote:
> I have also used it and like it, most because it's so similar to CVS
> that it really is pretty painless to start using.
> 
> One thing that it won't let us do easily (AFAIK) is do our "repolinks"
> magic like we can with CVS because all the data is kept in BerkeleyDB,
> and I don't think it has a facility to emulate symlinks between modules.

I wonder if you could just use "svn cp".  I know that command retains 
the history, so it either copies the history or the command is really 
more like a hard link.  If it's like a hard link, nothing like repolinks 
is needed.

> Also, its branching scheme is much different than CVS', which would take
> time to get used to.  I still really don't know how to merge two
> branches (as the feature was not implemented when I started using it,
> and I haven't upgraded since it was).

The CVS migration scripts aren't fully baked AFAIK.

BTW I took the time yesterday to download Bitkeeper.  Now I understand 
why some people have been flaming it.  You can't just download it.  You 
have to find the download area (which isn't completely obvious), fill 
out a form, and wait for an auto-generated email.  The email tells you 
where to download it and gives you the password.  The process made me 
feel like I was robbing the company by downloading their software 
without paying for it.  I wouldn't want others to have to do the same, 
so I don't want to think about Bitkeeper any more.

Shane