CVS vs Subversion, Part 2 - git and bazaar
patrick — Thu, 2008-07-31 00:21
Wow, I made that last posting about CVS vs Subversion as my own little rant and posted the link in a couple LUGs that I hang out in on IRC & did I ever get it. Of course I was expecting certain things, Nobody ever said CVS was better than Subversion.
I realize that, that's why I was ranting about having to use it at work.
CVS vs Subversion
patrick — Tue, 2008-07-01 23:14
At work I'm currently stuck using CVS... I think we're planning to make the move to Subversion (SVN), but I'm not sure when. I've used CVS in the past, but I didn't know a whole lot about what I was doing and most of what I was doing was via a GUI on windows. I knew what CVS was doing with the diffs it was taking because I had messed around with RCS and looked at the version files RCS creates - CVS started out as a bunch of shell scripts for RCS. Beyond the basics of checkout and commit I'm really not all that familiar with CVS anymore. All I ever really did was either utilized a local repository or somebody else provided me with a checkout command for either a kserver or a pserver. I still have no idea what the difference is between a kserver or a pserver.
After I got started with SVN it seemed like all the esoteric wizardly commands disappeared. SVN seems to have a lot of sane aliases for various commands making them easier to remember. Let's take the delete command for example. On Unix to delete a file you use rm (ReMove) and on DOS/Windows you use del (short for delete), both CVS and SVN have multiple aliases, but it's not as obvious for CVS - you'll have to go digging pretty far through the man page to find them. Here's CVS help:
