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["Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>]

Chris Brien said:
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>
> You're missing the point.
>
> I'm a Guru and I use CVS. Now, if I were to help out another Guru for a
> moment, I can as long as he uses CVS. If he were to use perforce, I
> would  also have to use perforce to make any changes, since the CVS
> repository  wouldn't have anything like the latest versions.
>
> Now, this other Guru that uses perforce decides to help me out. He makes
>  changes in perforce, and yet I don't have those changes because I'm
> using  CVS. He would then have to change his working method to CVS in
> order to  help.
>
> This is why they need to be synced. Whichever repository someone decides
> to  use must be up-to-date. We can't let some sections of CVS become
> outdated.  You could of course get the latest perforce changes out of
> the tarball and  then update CVS manually in order to work with CVS, but
> this mostly defeats  the purpose of using any revision management
> system.
>
> We're using two systems to allow freedom of choice. We can't let one
> choice  be the poorer cousin.
>
> I want this thread to die, too. Sorry again.
>
> Chris
> aka zero_the_hero

This is exactly my point for the original thread....lets just get them
syncing in both directions and then everyone will be happy.

EOD

-One of Three

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