I've been using version control for a long time, but I haven't used CVS much since the first day I tried Subversion.
(Git seems great but isn't the same kind of drop-in upgrade that CVS to Subversion was)
Things I forgot
- CVS doesn't do the nice recursive add that subversion does
At the start of a project you need to run
cvs import
- CVS expands keywords by default - this is a problem if like me you want to merge in changes from someone else CVS repository as both sites have changes teh keywords
Disable keyword changing by updating with
cvs up -d -ko
- CVS doesn't add back deleted directories
cvs up -d
- CVS doesn't have a nice equivilant of svn status
cvs -q up
Not quite the same as it will update stuff - but it does tell you which local files have changed
- Tagging seems OK but doesn't quite do the same thing
cvs tag