>>>>> "Gregory" == Gregory Youngblood <greg@netio.org> writes:
Gregory> I can accept a performance hit for not upgrading. This
Gregory> backwards compatibility is important to me. I realize svn is
Gregory> not cvs, however cvs has been around for quite a while. And,
Gregory> I don't think it has seen too many changes to the file
Gregory> format over the years (RCS files right?). This means I can
Gregory> recover old cvs repos from backups and almost always just
Gregory> drop them into a current system and use them again. That's
Gregory> very powerful (and comforting).
Yes. Given a sufficiently primitive storage method -- and what CVS
does certainly qualifies as very primitive -- that can be true. You
do pay a bit of a price for having a source control system with proper
database semantics, rather than one that only barely works at all.
paul
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