Difference between GIT and CVS

Question

What is the difference between Git and CVS version control systems?

I have been happily using CVS for over 10 years, and now I have been told that Git is much bette

Answer 1

I'm also a 10+ year mostly happy user of cvs, though I also like git, and with time will come to prefer it, though most of the projects I work on currently use cvs, or svn, and we can't seem to get the bureacracy where I work convinced to let us punch a git-hole through the firewall.

A couple of things that make cvs nicer than it might otherwise be are cvsps, and another is either Andrew Morton's patch scripts, or quilt. Cvsps lets you reconstitute the multiple files of a commit into a single patch (and thus extract "changesets" from CVS) while quilt, or Andrew Morton's patch scripts allow you to commit sensible "changesets" into cvs pretty easily and comfortably, allowing you to work on mutliple things simultaneously while still keeping them separated prior to committing. CVS has its quirks, but I'm used to most of them.