Re: CVS migration to subversion?

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Bill Haneman wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 03:06, James Henstridge wrote:
>  
>
> > ... They made the decision that 
> > network bandwidth was more precious than diskspace, which is probably 
> > correct.
> >    
>
> This is interesting since most of the magic forecasting graphs I've seen
> in the past few years still show bandwidth growing faster than disk
> capacity and CPU.
>  
It is more a case of disks being big enough now.  When CVS was being 
developped, storing two copies of the source locally in order to be able 
to perform local diffs didn't seem like an acceptable tradeoff.

However, these days I can buy a 120GB hard disk for a reasonable price, 
so I don't have much of a problem storing two copies of the source. 
However, I could always do with a faster network connection :)  The 
second local copy of the sources gives you the ability to revert to 
pristine, perform a diff to last repository version and a few other 
operations locally (ie. disconnected mode).  It also can reduce the size 
of transfers when doing checkins, which could be useful if the bandwidth 
of the repository is the limiting factor.

Of course, due to SVN's current limitations it isn't really worth 
considering a switch yet (but probably will be worth considering at some 
point in the future).

James.

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