Articles tagged “Revision control”

CVS hatefulness

Published at 20:58, Tue 20 May 2008

CVS might be considered an easy target for software hate, but that doesn’t stop it annoying the hell out of you. Here’s an instance I encountered today, trying to use cvs annotate.

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Tracked-but-uncommitted files with Git

Published at 22:36, Sun 27 Apr 2008

Something I find awkward about Git is that it doesn’t seem to deal with the concept of a tracked but uncommitted file — that is, the situation you’d get into with CVS after running cvs add on a new file, but before committing that file to the central repository.

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Musings on revision-control metadata

Published at 14:48, Sun 30 Mar 2008

One of the axes along which revision-control systems differ from each other is where they choose to store their working-tree metadata.

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