On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Lawrence Lile wrote:

> Yow! - CVS looks complex and smells like it has security issues.  Do I
> understand correctly that it stores your project documents on somebody
> else's server?   This gives me the shivers.  If I was doing a far-flung GNU
> project with a bunch of volunteer programmers this might be a good system to
> use.

Though it can be very complex in full blown use, it can also be pretty
simple.  I have CVS set up on my own local Linux system and only I use it
for my own projects.  It's been a godsend...  you can produce a complete
history of changes, revert back to the last working version, all kinds of
things you wish you could do when you accidentally step on something.  It
takes a little while to learn (couple hours or so), and I still have not
been able to make heads or tails of the Winows CVS client, though I'm sure
it's simpler than I'm making it.

If you have a UNIX system of some sort around, I highly recommend it -
even for a single person.

Dale

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