The longevity of CVS speaks for itself. It's not perfect, but it has served me and my projects perfectly fine for over 20 years. Anytime I've ventured over to work with some other VCS, it inevitably was a distraction and a waste of time.
Any new VCS goes through these same rants -- not able to distinguish themselves on merit, they simply attack the dominant player. With Git, one learns quickly -- oh, it's all about the Python 'community' and their politics, I see.
I once moved a project from ClearCase to CVS because the performance of our ClearCase setup was _really_ eating into our time. I didn't have any major complaints from SVN as well.
Some reasons I moved to bzr are:
- repository backups are free due to the distributed nature
- python scripting
- fast local operations
So, yes, I don't really have a big issue with svn (or cvs) but given a choice I would go with bzr (or any other DVCS).
Any new VCS goes through these same rants -- not able to distinguish themselves on merit, they simply attack the dominant player. With Git, one learns quickly -- oh, it's all about the Python 'community' and their politics, I see.
When it ain't broke, don't fix it!