Re: Kernel SCM: When does CVS fall down where it REALLY matters?

Pau Aliagas
2002-03-08T09:38:36Z

On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Erik Andersen wrote:

> On Thu Mar 07, 2002 at 08:59:47PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > 5) ability to exchange changesets by email
>
> 6) Ability to do sane archival and renaming of directories.
> CVS doesn't even know what a directory is.

Doable with arch. You can rename dirs and remove them, also files, and it
will detect it generating a much smaller patchset. It all depends on the
tagging you choose for files be it implicit -tags inside the file-,
explicit -ci, co- or by name.

> 7) Support for archiving symlinks, device special files, fifos,
> etc.

You chose what is source code with regular exps. Symlinks sure work, the
rest not sure, but think so.

Pau