Ostensibly, subversion has some chance of working through corporate HTTP
proxy-only firewalls, whereas CVS doesn't.
-Gabe
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Norman Walsh [mailto:]
> Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 10:22 AM
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> Subject: Re: [chairs] SCM plans?
>
> / "Duane Nickull" <> was heard to say:
> | Then we should focus on the SCM first. CVS?
>
> Subversion?
>
> Among subversion's nice features are the fact that commits are atomic
> and the fact that you can rename files and directories (preserving
> their history) with the standard tools. (Renaming a directory or file
> on CVS basically involves administrative access to the directory
> containing the repository.)
>
> I've also heard interesting things about Arch and Mercurial which
> have a more distributed model.
>
> Be seeing you,
> norm
>
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