[wellylug] CVS woe

[Daniel Pittman]

David Antliff <david.antliff at gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 15:44, Daniel Pittman <daniel at rimspace.net> wrote:
>
>> Either would be a much smaller step than git, though. :)
>
> Due to a rather unwise decision made by people who get paid more than
> me, I am now in the unenviable position of rolling out a common git
> platform across three geographically distinct sites (NZ, East Coast
> USA, West Coast USA) amongst a group of very competent *hardware*
> engineers who unfortunately are still using Microsoft Visual
> SourceSafe...
>
> For the first week or so I was in a ridiculous panic - you want me to
> do WHAT?!

I think your decision to stop panicking and move to acceptance was
premature, given how much fun I expect retraining them is going to be,.

> But the decision was made so the only thing left to do was rise to the
> challenge I guess. As I write these in-house tutorials I now feel like
> i know git pretty well, but I haven't actually used it yet in a
> production environment.
>
> If it was up to me, we'd probably just use SubVersion. Anything is
> better than VSS. I can see my future rapidly filling up with git
> issues... I may never get to work on hardware again... :(

Honestly, judging from the experiences of the small handful of people
who did select SVN for managing VHDL designs and other hardware design
related paraphernalia ... you are probably lucky to have git.

git is a PITA to train people on, but the number of complaints about
mangling of VHDL content by SVN I found were ... surprising.

Especially on the Windows platform, where it loves to convert line
endings at the drop of a hat. ;)

Regards,
        Daniel