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Re:Comic Code – Monospaced interpretation of the most over-h... by kazinator on Friday July 26, 2019 @03:18PM (#20537572)
I developed a layer for CVS that provides directory structure versioning, symbolic links and execute permissions. Plus more: branches with merge tracking workflow for repeated merges, and a grab command that imports snapshots, identifying renamed/moved files, with symlink tracking.

That was 17 years ago.

People still using CVS in 2019 and not taking advantage of Meta-CVS are in a pretty special category.

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Re:Comic Code – Monospaced interpretation of the most over-h... by sitkack on Friday July 26, 2019 @08:36PM (#20539584)
https://web.archive.org/web/20061230063314/http://users.foot...

This is sounds awesome. Would you suggest CVS or SVN for new deployments?

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Re:Comic Code – Monospaced interpretation of the most over-h... by kazinator on Saturday July 27, 2019 @12:42PM (#20542789)
The web page for this is alive, actually:

http://www.kylheku.com/~kaz/mcvs.html

I added the missing 1.1.98 tarball. Also, just tagged 1.2 which picks up some subsequent changes. (Last time anything was touched was 2014).

I wouldn't recommend CVS or SVN for any new deployments.

Even with Meta-CVS, CVS still sucks at the infrastructural level: the branching model and so on.

Meta-CVS has better support than Git for tracking changes in the directory structure, but that's not enough to offset the downside of being based on CVS.

Someone should port Meta-CVS to Git.

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