Posted by "Bostjan Skufca @ domenca.si" on 10/21/23 11:17

a. It would create a posibility to run application directly from CVS if http
server would have access to it

b. details :))


On Tuesday 31 May 2005 18:06, Jochem Maas wrote:
> Bostjan Skufca @ domenca.com wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > is it possible to mount CVS/SVN repository as filesystem?
>
> a. why would you want to? (the whole idea is that you _dont_ edit files
> directly in the repository) b. this is a php mailinglist not a cvs
> mailinglist. ;-)
>
> > regards,
> > Bostjan
> >
> > On Tuesday 31 May 2005 15:46, M. Sokolewicz wrote:
> >>Marcus Bointon wrote:
> >>>On 31 May 2005, at 09:58, Jochem Maas wrote:
> >>>>Also I hear lots of good things about subversion (SVN), which is a
> >>>>newer alternative for version control - some even say its better.
> >>>
> >>>I can definitely vouch for Subversion. I'm using it for all my PHP
> >>>stuff. I'd not used cvs a great deal, but I'd always found it awkward
> >>>and svn is certainly easier.
> >>>
> >>>The home page is here: http://subversion.tigris.org/ The documentation
> >>>(an online O'Reilly book) is excellent. It's pretty easy to learn
> >>>(shares most basic commands with cvs), and there are many helper apps
> >>>to work with it, not least TortoiseSVN which looks and works just like
> >>>TortoiseCVS. I'm on OSX with OpenBSD and Linux servers and it's been
> >>>easy to get it working over HTTPS. There are some OSX clients (notably
> >>>svnx), but I find that once you figure out the commands, the command
> >>>line interface is very easy to work with.
> >>>
> >>>Consensus seems to be that if you're just starting out in version
> >>>control, go straight to svn so you can skip all the reasons that made
> >>>them want an upgrade from cvs!
> >>>
> >>>Marcus
> >>
> >>another CVS/SVN helper-application is smartSVN (or smartCVS for CVS):
> >>http://www.smartsvn.com/ (http://www.smartcvs.com/ for CVS). Those
> >>applications are really nice, personally I find that they are far easier
> >>to handle than tortoiseCVS(/SVN)

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