Re: Subversion
"Jason R. Mastaler" <[email protected]>
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Thanks for the feedback folks. I think I definitely will migrate to SVN then. Perhaps not this week, but soon. BTW, I also found this document about the Python project migrating from CVS to SVN which was interesting -- http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0347/ On 9/19/06 10:44 PM, David Summers wrote: > On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Jason R. Mastaler wrote: >> Should we use this instead of CVS? Sourceforge now offers projects >> Subversion as well. >> >> http://sourceforge.net/docs/E09 >> >> Not that familiar with Subversion yet, but it seems like it might be better. > > YES! > > With CVS you can't rename files, keeping history! > > With CVS you are stuck with ever accumulating empty directories that > take more and more time to run through while updating! > > With CVS to be able to merge later, you have to tag the root of > the branch and then remember each subsequent tag so you don't accidentally > try to merge stuff you've already merged. > > With CVS when you commit, tag, or branch, you have to wait for it to > duplicate the same commit/tag/branch log message and info into every file > in the repository. > > Subversion keeps the same great data model that CVS promoted > (Copy-Modify-Merge) so CVS users fill right at home once they get past the > "universal revision per commit" issues. > > With Subversion, a tag/branch takes mere seconds as it is a lazy copy. > > Subversion is not perfect or a panacea but it is "a compelling replacement > for CVS". > > Pretty easy to convert from cvs2svn with the python command script of that > name. > > When I converted from CVS to Subversion my repository went from 14+ GB > down to 6.6 GB. > > Subversion is multi-platform (Unix/Linux, MAC OS X, Windows, Novell, > OS/400) and has some good GUIs as well as the standard command-line > interface. > > http://subversion.tigris.org > > http://svnbook.red-bean.com > > > - David Summers > > David Wayne Summers "Linux: Because reboots are for hardware upgrades!" > [email protected] PGP Key: http://summersoft.fay.ar.us/~david/pgp.txt > PGP Key fingerprint = 0B44 B118 85CC F4EC 7021 1ED4 1516 5B78 E320 2001