CVS

[Tom Buskey]

pll at lanminds.com said:
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>For example, CVS, which is the revision control system of choice in 
>the Free/Open source world is really nothing more than a bunch of 
>shell scripts layered on top of RCS and stuck together with a lot of 
>duct tape and chewing gum.  It has no inherent knowledge of a

This is a myth.  CVS doesn't use RCS at all nowadays.  No shell
scripts either.  It was rewritten in C a long time ago.

>network, or of client/server architecture.  Many efforts have been 

CVS can be local or have a CVS server with or w/o a login and passwd,
like ftp.  I've also run it through an SSH tunnel very nicely.  

There are various clients that work through this client/server interface
nicely such as emacs, xemacs, tkCVS, WinCVS. The emacs client can be
part of dired too.

>made to rectify this situation, however, everyone really knows, deep 
>down, that what CVS needs is a complete re-write from the ground up.

It has been rewritten once.  You should read some documentation on 
a current version of CVS.



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Tom Buskey