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Linus definitely helped and he pretty much killed cvs (not the drug chain).



You mean git killed SVN right? SVN killed CVS in my understanding.


I still push for SVN when we're doing work that centralization makes a great deal of sense. For example, I look at SVN+puppet to be an exceptional combination... and I really don't need that puppet repo to be distributed.

Then again, if I'm working with people in different areas, and want them to have a full reproducible copy of the repo, git it is.

I maintain a "use the right tool for the right job". Sometimes the Cathedral wins out, and other times the Bazaar wins out (NO! not the Bazaar source control!).


People used SVN, but I'm not sure enough people switched that it killed CVS.

SVN seemed like it didn't go far enough to be honest. It wanted to be "atomic CVS", but there were many long-standing issues with SVN.


SVN is probably the most prolific in the "Enterprise" arena.




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