Lessons from PostgreSQL's Git transition

Posted Oct 13, 2010 12:03 UTC (Wed) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: Lessons from PostgreSQL's Git transition by lmb
Parent article: Lessons from PostgreSQL's Git transition

> So, Postgres switched, but it took them longer than the slightly larger Linux kernel project. I'm not sure that is something to be proud of.

I do not recall Linux ever using CVS.

Lessons from PostgreSQL's Git transition

Posted Oct 13, 2010 12:32 UTC (Wed) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link] (2 responses)

You are correct. Linus went so far as to state - on the basis of his experience using CVS at Transmeta - that passing around tarballs+patches was actually superior to CVS.

Lessons from PostgreSQL's Git transition

Posted Oct 13, 2010 13:53 UTC (Wed) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link] (1 responses)

Exaggeration to get a point across? No, not that type of guy...

Lessons from PostgreSQL's Git transition

Posted Oct 13, 2010 14:07 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

Well, he stood by what he said and never used CVS.