On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 04:25:44PM +0200, Sebastian Bergmann wrote :
> Jason Greene wrote:
> > It a shame that CVS doesn't have a way to handle things like
> > this. Are there commercial systems that can?
>
> You don't need a commercial system for this.
>
> I recently came by accident across subversion
>
> http://subversion.tigris.org/
>
> I have yet to download and get a feel for it, but the website's
> feature list looks promising.
>
> For instance, it says
>
> "Directories, renames, and file meta-data are versioned.
>
> Lack of these features is the most common complaint against
> CVS -- basically, CVS only versions file contents.
> Subversion will handle directory changes, file renames, and
> permission and other meta-data changes as well."
And its supposed to handle links, too. Great.
- Markus