Hi,
In light of recent mishaps at using CVS, may I suggest to try to
avoid too many branchings and version book-keeping since ideed it
can be confusing and counter-productive. From my previous experience
with CVS I learned that having a stable version and one or more
branched developement version can lead to stagnation of the former
and confusion in the latter. Perhaps it is therefore even better
to keep a very dynamical version in the repository so that people
acquire the habit of refreshing their local copies before their
morning coffee.
As far as labeling CVS as a "complete disaster", I can only say that
CVS can be turned into a disaster only by ignorance and inattention
to detail, and by amazing and disappointing unwillingness to learn.
As one of the people who have strived to introduce CVS and related
mechanisms to simplify BLAST code development and maintenance, I feel
bitter at such remarks.
Simon
On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Chris Crawford wrote:
> hi vitaliy,
> the instructions were do 'cvs up -r v2' only on the directories
> 'blastmc BlastLib2 Blast_Params'. your epics directory got wiped out
> because there were no tags there; to get it back, do 'cvs up -A epics'
> or similar for other directories. note: it wouldn't have wiped out any
> of your changes; they would be marked as conflicts. and any changed
> files are always backed up as '.#file~version'
> as far as our use of cvs, i agree that is a learning curve, but
> anytime more than one person develop the same code, you need some system
> to keep track of things. cvs is the simplest thing out there short of
> putting the load on one person to keep track of everyone else's
> changes. besides, chances are that the next collaborative project you
> work on will use it also, so it's well worth the time learning.
> --chris
>
> Vitaliy Ziskin wrote:
> >
> > So, I do what is needed to be done cvs up -r v2 according to what I've
> > been told in my epics directory and low and behold the whole directory
> > is whiped out. I would like to take an opportunity to say that the CVS
> > project has been a complete disaster. Not only is it not helping it's
> > getting in the way (at least for me) of doing work. And I have a
> > feeling I'm not the only one.
> >
> > Cheers, Vitaliy
>
-- Simon Sirca Dept of Physics, University of Ljubljana Tel: +386 1 4766-574 Jadranska 19 Fax: +386 1 2517-281 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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