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Re: A couple more subversion notes
- From: Steven Bosscher <stevenb at suse dot de>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Cc: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>, rasky at develer dot com
- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:36:09 +0200
- Subject: Re: A couple more subversion notes
- References: <10510201457.AA24132@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
On Thursday 20 October 2005 16:57, Richard Kenner wrote:
> Sorry about that, but let's not remember of the other dozens which
> works on branches and can do a merge in seconds instead of literally
> *hours*, and so on.
>
> Yes, but how often do even those who work on branches a lot do merges?
Not very often.
*Because* it is so hard and takes so long to do with CVS.
> What I keep seeing are increasingly complex solutions in order to keep
> efficiency the same as it is now.
Ah, come on. That just takes some getting used to. And you are ignoring
some of the benefits for the most common operations like diffing, updating,
and regression hunting.
Gr.
Steven