migrating from CVS

[Wouter van Heyst]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 01:51:30AM +0100, David Allouche wrote:
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> > As I understand it, the Bazaar-NG model is that one has a checkout (tree) for
> > every branch, whereas with CVS there can be one tree but checket-out files can
> > be on different branches. We use this feature to introduce new software in an
> > otherwise stable tree.
> 
> As far as I know, CVS is the the only system that allows a checkout to
> be a mixture of things from different branches. It's generally a bad
> idea to do that because such a state cannot easily be recorded. With CVS
> you can _actually_ do some really crazy things (with default branches
> and such), but there _are_ ways of solving the same use cases that do
> not involve killing puppies.

SVN also supports mixed checkouts.

Wouter van Heyst