Re: CVS migration to subversion?

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Carlos Perelló Marín wrote:

> Hi people, I'm playing with subversion (http://subversion.tigris.org)
> and it seems really cool.
[snip]

> But it has also some problems:
>
> - http://subversion.tigris.org/inconveniences.html
On this list, they list "*Interrupted checkouts: *If you interrupt a 
checkout in progress, you'll need to toss the working copy and start 
over.".  This sounds like a _big_ problem for a project like Gnome.  If 
the repo is on the local network, throwing away your working copy and 
checking out again might not be too bad.  However, with a dialup line on 
the other side of the world (a situation where interruptions are more 
likely ...), it is more of a problem.

> 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).
>  
The SVN feature set does look quite compelling, but some of the problems 
listed on the inconveniences page look _very_ inconvenient for a project 
like Gnome :)

James.

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