[thelist] Versioning software

Chris Dorer cdorer at gmail.com
Tue Jul 4 09:56:36 CDT 2006


Rob's got a good point.

IMO, both SVN and CVS are great. SVN was created to improve upon CVS's
faults.  CVS is still good to use.

On 7/4/06, Robert Gormley <robert at pennyonthesidewalk.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Do I understand correctly that subversion / tortoisesvn is a
> > directory based system and tortoisecvs is a file based system
>
> Not as such. However, there are a number of operations - renaming a
> directory under source conrol, amongst others - that Subversion handles
> more gracefully than CVS.
>
> The Subversion Book (http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/index.html)
> does explain, somewhat, how they differ, in particular:
>
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.intro.html
> And
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.forcvs.html
>
> Though the later is primarily for experienced CVS users.
>
> > Other then that is one easier to use for a newcomer to
> > versioning software?
>
> If ease of use is your only criterion, I would say "Use SVN". If you
> need to know about systems you'll come across, CVS might be a better
> bet, but it would still be good to know SVN.
>
> SVN is the newer system, and offers more flexibility.
>
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