From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 01:59:41 GMT
Subject: Re: git versus CVS (versus bk)
Message-ID: <46a038f90510301759p26fa4b0wd67025f069c2373a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510301720390.14972@x2.ybpnyarg>

On 10/31/05, walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com> wrote:
> Could someone explain to me the shortcomings of CVS which prompted
> the development of bk (and then git) -- in a way that a non-developer
> like me can understand?

You need to understand the SCM "problem space" at least a little bit.
Can't cheat on that unfortunately.

The writeup at http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/scm.html is not perfect,
but should give you a bit of background. It barely covers git -- we
need to prod the author to update it ;)



martin