[cvsnt] Re: cvsnt status

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Wed Jul 16 19:57:27 BST 2003


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Tony Hoyle wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 12:12:51 -0700, "Glen Starrett" <grstarrett at cox.net>
> wrote:
> 
> 
>>IMHO CVS's biggest shortcoming is the branching / merging support.  Maybe
>>it's just my lack of experience with it, but the required precision with
>>which you have to execute branching and merging seems excessive.  Branch
>>here, but make sure you tag it.  Now merge into trunk, but make sure you
>>either stop using that branch or tag again because now you can end up
>>merging the same changes twice if you aren't careful.  I likely just need
>>some practice with it to feel more comfortable, but IMHO it could be done
>>a lot better.
> 
btw. Subversion doesn't have mergepoint processing yet...

Tony



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