[wellylug] CVS woe

[David Antliff]

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:50, Jethro Carr <jethro.carr at jethrocarr.com> wrote:
> I have moving to a new repo server on my TODO list, so it will be a good
> time to look at new options like SVN and Git.

FWIW,

I'm a long-time CVS and Mercurial user in a Software Engineering
environment. Recently our team "decided" to move to git, so I've spent
the last month or so setting things up and writing and giving
tutorials on Git.

At first I was very skeptical and actually somewhat annoyed with git.
However I now hold the opinion that it is a pretty amazing tool when
you know how to use it. Kinda like emacs I guess... ;)

If you're looking at moving away from CVS, then I think you have at
least three options:
1. Subversion - minimal hassle since it's similar to CVS in many ways.
That is also a down side.
2. Mercurial - nice and easy distributed source control. Love it.
3. git - unless you're used to distributed source control, it's tricky
to pick up. But it is pretty darn cool. I really like the way it works
internally. I'll be using this far more than Mercurial from now on.

There are others too, but those I have experience with.

-- David.