Re: CVS migration to subversion?



El jue, 13 de 03 de 2003 a las 01:49, James Henstridge escribió:
> 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 :)

The inconveniences page is a list of know bugs that will be fixed before
1.0, so I don't think it will be any problem if we wait until 1.0.2 (or
1.2 as Owen told).

Cheers.



> 
> James.
-- 
Carlos Perelló Marín
mailto:carlos gnome-db org
mailto:carlos perello hispalinux es
http://www.gnome-db.org
http://www.Hispalinux.es
Valencia - Spain

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