[development] FAQ: Why is Drupal still using CVS when X is a much better choice?

[Adrian Rossouw]

On 31 Jul 2008, at 12:42 PM, Karoly Negyesi wrote:

> If we move, we move to SVN. My team, consisting of mostly pretty  
> good coders tried a few distributed RCSes and given this experience  
> I am now vehemently against any DRCS. The concepts are way too heavy  
> and the utilities are not ready. Most of these systems are not that  
> mature thus any docs from 1-2 years ago are worthless thus  
> documentation is not much. When I was for a DRCS in 2005/2006 I was  
> a naive greenhorn sorry for the ruckus I caused then, I now know  
> better.

Wow. that's quite a turn around =)

I also like SVN over the others in that it removes complexity instead  
of adds more.