13 Sep
2019
13 Sep
'19
11:50 a.m.
On Fri, 13 Sep 2019 15:22:58 +1000 Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Wed, 11 Sep 2019, Larry McVoy wrote:
I used to know CVS quite well. Then I switched to mercurial
(for my own projects). Then to git. git has its problems but
it has worked well enough. With just a few commands you can
get a lot done with it. If you rely on/ contribute to any
open source projects, you pretty much have to know it these
days.
Yeah, this was one of things that BitKeeper
addressed. It was easier to
use and every commit was a tag.
That reminds me: I really must take another look at BK for my stuff.
At the moment I'm using say "fred.c-" for the previous version etc (and
"fred.c+" for something finished but not quite ready to install).
I've also renamed entire directory trees to sub-tree under "OLD" etc :-)
SCCS/RCS are history as far as I'm concerned; I never quite got the hang
of CVS (which OpenLDAP uses); and I've heard all sorts of horror stories
about GIT to keep me away from it...