Re: The direction linux is taking

Oliver Xymoron
2001-12-29T17:14:47Z

On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> So even if I used CVS or BK internally, that's not what people _gripe_
> about. People want write access, not just a SCM.

Not true. I for one want to do a 'cvs update' to get current and be able
to look at revision logs and keep my own branches and merge them onto the
tip. Sure, I can do this manually, but an SCM makes this quite a bit
easier.

Other useful tools are things like CVS blame:

http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsblame.cgi?file=mozilla/Makefile.in

(not sure how this would be done with single user check-in, but there's
probably a way to hack it in)

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