> On 2013-04-20, Alokat MacMoneysack <mail...@alokat.org> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> first, I don't want to start a flame war about why is CVS better or not >> better than X - it's just a question. >> >> If you say, we use it because it just works - it's okay. :) >> >> So why does OpenBSD still uses CVS and don't migrate to SVN or something >> like git as other OSS projekts do? >> >> Regards, >> fritjof >> >> > > my 2p: like all version control software CVS has bugs, but between us, > developers have a reasonable idea of how to avoid them in CVS, there's > less knowledge about other version control systems. > > Also having the repository stored in human-readable (ish) files is an > advantage if there was ever any repo corruption. > > You might also ask why some other OS use source control software which > they don't even include in the base OS ;-) > > Amen. The fact that I now have to install subversion and all its bloat dependencies to do anything in the other BSD I use will me making it so I now do a lot more with OpenBSD.
-- ESP
