[Gnu-arch-users] Re: log-buf-len dynamic (fwd)

[Pau Aliagas]

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Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 09:56:52 +0200 (CEST)
From: Pau Aliagas <address@hidden>
To: lkml <address@hidden>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: log-buf-len dynamic

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Use CVS and be happy. But don't complain to others that have needs that 
> CVS simply can't fill. 
> ....
> Indeed. That's pretty much all non-distributed stuff is useful for, from
> where I'm stading.  Small projects with a few developers and a lot of
> read-only stuff. And even there the developers will bitch about the
> limitations.
> 
> Sure, SVN makes branches cheaper, but you still have to work with them
> like under CVS, ie merging is a total disaster. And you still can't make 
> it your private repository.

No flame wars intended, but arch does this and more. See:
http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch

Distributed, complex merging, easy branches... and even a linux repository
from 0.1, not yet in the detail of the current cvs or bk, but easyly
achievable if anyone is interested in spending the time to import it.

Pau