Re: [Firebird-docs] Consider migrating to GitHub?

[Mark R. <ma...@la...>]

On 18-12-2016 10:41, Lester Caine wrote:
> CVS still has a number of plus features that github deliberately
> destroyed in order to make supporting CODE a priority.

Git != GitHub.

 > When PHP project
> was looking to move - yet again - Hg get the vote for a system that
> worked better, but the 'github' marketing angle won the day - even given
> it's know faults! So now I have an Hg/Mercurial setup locally, which
> handles CVS, SVN and GIT transparently and allows working easily between
> all four. BUT I would still prefer the clean way that CVS handled
> modular project. GIT ( and actually Hg) still does not accept that
> scripted languages and documentation is much better handled as a series
> of inter-related projects rather than one all encompassing code base.
> sub-repo's are frond on in both while CVS modules are still a perfect
> solution, and projects that broke perfectly good CVS repositories into a
> series of GIT repo's still have no tools to put the hwole back together
> again.

That is not really an argument against moving the documentation project 
given it is only one module.

And technically git has submodules etc, but that is really a pain to 
work with, and I've never really had the need for something like that.

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Mark Rotteveel