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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@fr.inter.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Python filesystem
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 21:49:58 +0100

> Well....  If the things Boyd says about CVS are any indication, it
> probably makes you more likely to jab at it.

We use CVS at Strakt -- you have no choice.  Revision control is
a must and CVS is the your least worst choice.

> Creating a file automatically created
> a new version.  I know several VMS programmers who never bothered with
> revision control; the filesystem did it for them.

I heard the VMS system hackers developed on UNIX, 'cos VMS was too
'orrible :)

I could tell you a story about ULTRIX revision control, but that
could get me into some amount of trouble, given I signed my life
away some 10 years back :)