[thelist] CVS/SCM System for Webdevelopment

[Sam-I-Am]

> If you are talking about changing relative paths in every src and href 
> attribute, then I would suggest that you just use absolute paths and 
> avoid that problem. If you can't, you could write a script (perl?) to 
> do it for you and then run it on checkout/update - probably not as 
> trivial as it sounds though.

not trivial if you have paths in css, or - worse - built dynamically by 
javascript. You can get a lot of the way there though and just log areas 
that might need manual attention.

> Subversion does not have a WinCVS equivalent which has been a problem 
> for some of my CLI-challenged friends [1]. 

There's a tortoise client: http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/
I've only installed and played with it.. but my experience with 
tortoiseCVS (for the last year or 2) is that its an enormous improvement 
over winCVS.

> I was able to easily rename a directory though. That was kind of nice.
envy. We are promised a migration from CVS to subversion this summer. 
I'll watch this thread for any other gotchas people have come across.

Sam