Re: Subversion migration schedule (cut-off Fri 18 Mar)

[Kalle Vahlman <kalle vahlman gmail com>]

On 2/11/06, Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 06:35:54AM -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
> > If the questions Daniel was asking were actual big problems for us
> > to resolve, then that extra complexity might be needed, but it's
> > going to be far easier to just assemble the document that Daniel
> > is asking for; anonymous access, Windows support, etc, are there,
> > we just need to explain them to people.
>
>   I just want to get the informations and make sure things are possible
> *before* making the decision.

Being one of the "svn kicks the bollocks out of cvs"-camp, I'm curious
on how would cvs be used in a way that svn couldn't be? The use-cases
I can think of are pretty much limited to the normal version control
and browsability in web which both do work, but maybe you have others?

Svn is also (in my opinion) much more sensible for beginners (as it
resembles a filesystem) than cvs so this move might actually *lower*
the bar for contributions instead of rising it as you suggest.

It's not really a rash decision either as the first hits for "hey, how
about svn?" from the mailing list archives date back to 2003...

The amount of work this migration takes as a whole is also something
that alone prevents the switch from being an overnight decision.

It also works on win32[1] (among other platforms) and has a nice
book[2] to get you started. Only barrier for using svn instead of cvs
should be some orientation, which (in my opinion) should be pretty
painless as most things work in the same terms that those of cvs.

[1] http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/
[2] http://svnbook.red-bean.com/

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