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Date:      Wed, 02 Jul 1997 23:28:46 -0600
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CVSUP and CVS branches: bug? 
Message-ID:  <199707030528.XAA02164@pluto.plutotech.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Jul 1997 22:45:51 MDT." <199707030445.WAA29217@rocky.mt.sri.com> 

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>I disagree.  There are many 'technical' features that CVS gives us that
>aren't available in Perforce, or are done in a much different fashion.
>That, and the documentation is pretty non-existant.  When I
>reviewed/evaluated Perforce for work, the lack of decent documentation
>was my final sticking point, and even the developers agreed that it
>needed work.  (Though, they were real good about providing specific
>answers to specific questions I had regarding the product, but that
>doesn't work well with a bunch of developers who are fairly naive when
>it comes to SCM's).
>
>That was last Fall, so things may have changed since then.

There is a 100+ page manual now that is very well written.  We've been
using Perforce at Pluto since February and I wouldn't even think for
a moment about going back to CVS.

>Nate
>

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Justin T. Gibbs
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