[CMake] git too difficult CMake switching to sccs

[Eric Noulard]

2010/4/1 Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com>:
> After trying git for a while, the CMake developers have decided that git  is
> way too complicated, and allows too many edits to take place simultaneously.
>   So, we have decided to use sccs instead.  With sccs, only one developer at
> a time can change a file, this avoids conflicting edits to being made to the
> source tree, and should increase the stability of CMake.  Since there are no
> network protocols supported by sccs, we will have to use a single SAMBA
> share to host the repository. Since we can not export this share outside
> Kitware, only developers located in the Clifton Park office of Kitware will
> be able to checkout a file for edit.  If external developers need to change
> a file, they will have to email one of the CMake developers and ask them to
> check it out locally at Kitware.  Once the CMake dev gets a lock on the
> file, we will email that version to the outside contributor.  After changes
> are made, the file should be emailed back to Kitware, or sent on a 3.5 inch
> floppy disk to:


Not bad that one, we did have a similar project in France
https://linuxfr.org/2010/04/01/26665.html

which will basically makes CVS the renewed best VCS ever  :-)


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