[Discuss] Possible backup scenarios for a 500GB drive

Daniel M German dmgerman at uvic.ca
Wed Oct 31 15:39:12 PDT 2007


 Adam Parkin twisted the bytes to say:



 Adam> I still use CVS, simply because it's what I first learned, and it used
 Adam> to be the only choice on the UVic machines here.  However, it would
 Adam> appear that they have finally added subversion, so perhaps I should
 Adam> look into the switch.

 Adam> Honestly though, I have *never* had any problems with CVS and thus
 Adam> I've always been a bit puzzled at why people knock it so much.

That is because you never had to rollback a transaction ;)

I use CVS, RCS, svn. Whatever the job needs (or my collaborators). CVS
and svn avoid the token-ring-protocol-on-email-transport collaborative
approach so typical of the people-who-have-never-used-version-control.

--dmg


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