On Tuesday 23 January 2007 01:44, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
What I find arguable/questionable in FE's CVS-repos, is the way
"FE-branches" have been implemented into it. They are implemented as
separate directories instead of CVS-branches. If real CVS-branches had
been used several details would have been much easier.
In the early days of FE, I had been told the reason for this design
decision had been AVCs, because CVS storing branches in files would
prevent AVCs to be applicable.
Way back when, the dist-cvs method did use actual cvs branches, however the
workflow was not easy to apply changes across all branches. And to some
extent having actual directories made life a bit easier for many things.
Now, directories COULD be implemented at the same time as cvs branches, just
a little extra work on the tool side when bringing them down. But here we
are, and most of us feel that it would be better to move to a new SCM with
new possibilities rather than put significant effort into CVS.
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Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora