Re: Using SVN instead?
Jeff Bailey wrote:
> I'd like to put forward the idea of moving the repo to svn (and
> svn.debian.org). Talking with pere online, he wants to clean up the
> locales mess in our patches directory, some of which involves renames.
>
> renames have bitten us a few times, and it would be nice to Stop The
> Madness.
It would also allow the deletion of all those empty directories, which makes
the cvsweb browsing process maddening. :-)
> I prefer svn over arch because svn seems to work close enough to cvs
> that I don't need to spend much time learning it. I also think that the
> upstream author of arch is an ass, but that should really be only a very
> minor consideration. =)
I found I had almost zero trouble switching from cvs to svn (oh, except that
mysteriously I have to run 'svn up' before committing slightly more often
than I had to run 'cvs up' before commiting, but it's really fast, so I
don't mind).
> Do others have thoughts? I will cheerfully do the conversion mid this
> week if everyone OKs it.
See the bug reported as
http://alioth.debian.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=300579&group_id=1&atid=200001
-- that's the only warning I have.
> Tks,
> Jeff Bailey
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