Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

[email protected] (William Lupton) · Wed, 21 Feb 96 08:34:41 HST

John Winans said:
> Any experience with rCVS out there yet?  I have not looked at it in any
> detail, but it seems like something that we could make use of. 

I asked an rCVS user (completely unbiased; he happens to be my brother)
and he said:
> rcvs is a horrible hack using rdist to copy code around. It is unreliable,
> and very slow. But it kept us alive for 3 years.
> 
> As of cvs 1.5, cvs itself supports a client-server mode. We've switched to
> it, and are happy. The latest release is 1.7; it has a few problems but it's
> pretty well supported (by the net).

I hope that we are talking about the same thing here. In any case, investigation
of the CVS client-server mode would seem called for. My informant also said (in
a later message):
> Go with the client server mode. The only outstanding problem that I know of
> (apart from some slight misfeatures in merging new files from branches) is
> that it doesn't handle passing the names of remote users to a server running
> as (e.g.) cvs.

Apparently FNAL has a hack to fix this problem but it will be fixed properly in
cvs 1.8.

William

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