Re: [SVN-MIGRATION] Argh!

Travis Swicegood kirjoitti:
> On Jul 11, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> 
>> Travis Swicegood wrote:
>>> That's actually a *really* bad idea.  There are a lot of third-party
>>> tools that rely on the standard SVN repository layout that this will
>>> break.  It would be much easier to write a few simple scripts to handle
>>> checkouts of multiple repositories or as Hannes pointed out use
>>> svn:externals with a few repositories such as pecl-all might also be a
>>> good solution.
>>
>> What sort of 3rd party tools?  I'm more worried about our own 1st party
>> tools that are currently completely broken because of this structure.
> 
> Well, off of the top of my head it becomes much, much harder to do a git 
> svn clone on it. :-)

If we had wanted to use git, we would. But we didn't so saying it's the reason 
not to make things easier is moot.

> I believe, though I'm not positive since I don't use them on a regular 
> basis, that most GUIs would be broken as well.  Subversion doesn't have 
> a real concept of a branch or a tag.  They're all just copies of code, 
> so they use a convention in the file-system to denote what's what.  Most 
> 3rd-party apps are going to rely on it to show things like branches and 
> tags and whatnot.

WHAT 3rd-party apps? Without proof this point is also moot.

--Jani