Comments on: SourceForge CVS takes my developer urge away

By: The World According to Sean

The World According to Sean — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 16:41:16 +0000

I found this on a quick search: SourceForge CVS takes my developer urge away , which is really funny to me for 2 reasons.

I installed Serendipity to do this blog 6 days ago
One of the first things I posted about was Alternatives to SourceForge

By: Cameron MacFarland

Cameron MacFarland — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 02:19:29 +0000

Another option is Subversion (http://subversion.tigris.org/). Subversion is a replacement for CVS that addresses some of the shortfalls of CVS. It’s designed on the idea that hard drive space is cheap, but bandwidth is expensive, so it keeps a pristine copy of the repository on the local hard drive to do diffs against, and only contacts the server when it has to.

By: Jonnay

Jonnay — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 05:35:51 +0000

If you’re going to set up your own server, just go ahead and install a better RCS. If you like the CVS method of source control, install Subversion. With the new svnserve daemon removing the apache 2.0/webdav dependancy it works like a charm.

By: Chu Yeow

Chu Yeow — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 03:04:35 +0000

Have you considered getting your own server and putting CVS on it? Sure you’d have to setup CVS and probably a CVS view script like ViewCVS on it, but it’d surely be faster than SourceForge’s (which I’ve also used before and I understand what you mean). But then again, you’ll probably lose in terms of data security and backups (I think SourceForge, if anything, is pretty tight about data integrity and backups).