[cvsnt] Subversion vs. CVSNT

Bryce Schober bryceman at dpzone.com
Thu Aug 21 19:58:03 BST 2003


Here's my current viewpoint:

We recently (a few months) transitioned to CVS from VSS because we 
didn't want to buy the licenses we needed.  I pushed this transition, 
mostly because of CVS's huge user base, and as a result became the cvsnt 
admin.  I knew of its limitations in versioning directories (renaming, 
moving, deleting, etc...), but I vastly underestimated the amount of 
pain I would suffer as a result.  Now my users (which, by the way I 
would think are fairly typical developers) are trying not to scream at 
me in frustration at how hard it is to do anything with directories.  
Binary handling and the import process have been large issues too, but 
that's more of a UI issue, not a cvsnt problem.  So now I wish like hell 
that I'd found subversion instead, but I can't be sure that I'm not just 
looking at the greener grass on the other side of the fence.

- Bryce Schober

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