[wellylug] CVS woe

[Daniel Pittman]

David Antliff <david.antliff at gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:38, Daniel Pittman <daniel at rimspace.net> wrote:
>> Moving to something like git is going to be a huge culture-shock, so
>> while they are the new hotness you should expect literally weeks of
>> wrapping your head around all the ways it works differently.
>>
>> This is because, git, while powerful and while improving /still/ has a
>> fairly user-hostile interface, and any DVCS is extremely complex
>> compared to CVS or SVN.
>
> I agree entirely. However if you choose to go this way, this
> screencast will enrich your life:
> http://excess.org/article/2008/07/ogre-git-tutorial/
>
> Mercurial is easier to pick up and start using, if you want to
> gradually move into a DVCS.

That is certainly true.  From my user experience testing, Bzr is
probably the best "first DVCS" choice, because it provides a much more
CVS-like interface than either git or Mercurial.

Either would be a much smaller step than git, though. :)

Regards,
        Daniel