Re: Move to Subversion?

Erik Hovland <[email protected]> Sat, 25 Aug 2007 08:11:22 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.handhelds.opie.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 09:41:42PM +1200, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Aug 2007, Erik Hovland wrote:
> > I don't have a problem with this. But with development being only a few
> > people, I don't see what makes cvs painful.
> 
> The current number of developers is not significant - we're still talking 
> centralised version control here.
> 
> When you've worked with Subversion a lot (as I have) being forced to use CVS 
> again is definitely painful. Subversion has local change tracking, 
> repository-wide versioning, easy reverts, and transactioned commits. These 
> are things that you come to rely on and miss very much when they arent there. 
> Not to mention that it is faster as well.
> 
> I'm suggesting the move because I think it makes development easier, and 
> because the transition from CVS to Subversion is a fairly easy one - both in 
> terms of usage and in converting the repository data.

What about another model all together, like git.

E

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