Re: Re: Switch to Subversion (!!!!!!!!!)

Eric Hanchrow <[email protected]>
>     MJ> If you hate CVS, you should hate subversion more.  It only
>     MJ> adds changesets and shares or amplifies all the other
>     MJ> drawbacks.
> 
> I honestly don't know why MJ would say that. 

Because it's my opinion.

> I've _never_ heard of anyone who regretted moving from CVS to svn.

You have now.

> Plus, the subversion developers are the most generous and capable of
> any Free Software project I've encountered.  They'll patiently answer
> your questions via the mailing list or IRC.  The project is quite
> active; they've made many releases since the initial one.

While good, the activity of the project doesn't make it a better
solution. CVS has made many releases since the initial one, but
almost everyone acknowledges it has problems. Subversion does too.

> [...] But before you switch to one, I'd recommend that you look at
> http://web.mit.edu/ghudson/thoughts/bitkeeper.whynot.  It's ostensibly
> about bitkeeper, but its arguments apply to all distributed revision
> control systems.

That paper by Subversion contributor Greg Hudson (see
http://www.tigris.org/spotlight/greghudson.html ) seems to
explicitly discuss bitkeeper's pyramid development model. That
isn't shared by most current distributed RCSes, possibly for
the reasons he outlines. A star or web model is more common.
Why do you think it applies to all distributed RCSes?

I don't mind what other people use, but please provide
a gateway for non-Subversion read-write access to continue.

Best wishes,
-- 
MJ Ray - personal email, see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html
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