Re: CVS migration to subversion?

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

I know some people have discussed this, but the current system works,
and until someone comes up with the resources and manpower to convert us
(as well as persuade everyone it's a good idea) I'm guessing the current
admin team isn't going to be anxious to take on that burden.
Luis

On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 08:21, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote:
> Hi people, I'm playing with subversion (http://subversion.tigris.org)
> and it seems really cool.
> 
> It solves lots of problems we have now easily, for example:
> 
> - Filename rename, or moving around the repository directly by the
> hackers and without the need of a system administrator. Also we could
> rollback that change as any other code change.
> - Secure logins (via https).
> - Works if you have a Proxy to access Internet.
> - Directory revisions (when you remove a directory it gets removed
> really from that branch)
> - Binary diffs
> - Automatic (and customizable via XML) repository web view (for example:
> http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/)
> - It has a script to migrate a CVS repository to subversion so we don't
> lose any history.
> - It lets you do more things offline than CVS (like some diffs, dirs add
> and others).
> - You can see easily the branches and tags that one module has.
> - And others :-)
> 
> But it has also some problems:
> 
> - It's not a 1.0 release (but it will be soon).
> - The 1.0 release will not have the blame option.
> - http://subversion.tigris.org/inconveniences.html
> - The CVS migration script does not implement branches and tags (but it
> will have it with the 1.0 release)
> 
> You can see who is using it already here:
> http://subversion.tigris.org/svn-repositories.html
> 
> I'm not telling you that we should migrate now, I think we should look
> at it and if we agree that we could use it, start a migration test so we
> could have all ready to be able to change our system with the 1.0
> release (or when we think it's ready to use). For Example, we will need
> bonsai and lxr ported/equivalent tools that works with subversion
> (viewcvs works already).
> 
> Cheers.