Re: Subversion migration.

[Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>]

Yeah, this strikes me as a reasonable intermediate solution- if we did
this now, in 12-24 months when bazaar-ng is more mature/robust, we
could look at migrating to it, and if it seemed compelling over svn,
we could move.

Luis

On 6/2/05, Mikael Hallendal <micke imendio com> wrote:
> 26 maj 2005 kl. 08.02 skrev Ross Golder:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I think a solution that would work really well is to go to
> Subversion, it's a really big improvement from CVS and at the same
> time mirror it to baz (as Canonical is currently doing). This gives
> the possibility to use baz for those that want and Subversion for the
> others.
> 
> It can be used as follow,
> 
> * Have a writable subversion checkout.
> 
> * Check out a read-only baz copy and work against your own branch
> with baz.
> 
> * When done with the patch you are working on, make a patch and apply
> it to the
>    subversion tree to commit it to the main repository.
> 
> If you just want to go on as we currently do, just checkout the
> Subversion and skip the baz step all together.
> 
> I've been trying out baz a bit since lifeless and jeff where nice to
> help me get started. While it has a lot of interesting features (and
> I will definitely use the above solution myself) it's another way of
> thinking and I find myself unsure on how it works from time to time
> and have to go back and look it up.
> 
> Just my thoughts,
>    Mikael Hallendal
> 
> > On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 09:22 -0400, Morten Welinder wrote:
> >
> >> Is there a problem we're trying to solve or is this just for the
> >> heck of it?
> >>
> >>
> >
> > No specific problem that I can see. CVS works and we could use it for
> > the next century, but it's fairly dull and inflexible. I think the aim
> > is to allow the project to start to reap the benefits of the more
> > advanced VCS systems now available.
> >
> >
> >> (Yes, cvs has a million problems, but is someone actively being
> >> hindered in his/her work by cvs' failings?)
> >>
> >>
> >
> > As a developer, just the fact that I can't do 'cvs diff' when
> > offline is
> > a real PITA. Now I've seen how things could be, and all the other
> > projects I hack on use Subversion, I find it less appealing to start
> > working on a GNOME project if I find myself offline with a few
> > hours to
> > spare.
> >
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