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Re: [OT]: CVS replacement



Rob Weir wrote:
> Sure.  The beautiful thing about arch is that it's designed around
> sets of changesets.  Think of a changeset as a super-patch, that
> tracks file renames and symlinks and permissions.

> There's no real clear upgrade path from CVS.  Subversion has cvs2svn,
> which is undergoing heavy development and is almost there for branches
> and tags (mainline conversions have been possible for a while).  There
> is a project called cscvs which is working on extracting changesets
> from CVS repositories (which is harder than it sounds, since CVS
> doesn't track changes to groups of files.

Note that cvs2svn deals with this same problem, since subversion
effectively uses changesets as well. Any given subversion commit can
involve multiple changes to multiple files, including renames and
executablity changes. Of course it doesn't do symlinks or general
permissions yet.

-- 
see shy jo

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