From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 10 10:07:28 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46CE516A4CE for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 10:07:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from mhub-c5.tc.umn.edu (mhub-c5.tc.umn.edu [160.94.128.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49A4B43D39 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 10:07:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ryans@gamersimpact.com) Received: from [24.107.70.120] by mhub-c5.tc.umn.edu with ESMTP for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 12:07:25 -0600 Message-Id: <40003F4C.2000107@gamersimpact.com> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 12:07:08 -0600 From: Ryan Sommers User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20040109 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <20040110032731.18864.qmail@web13422.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: SCM options (was Re: Where is FreeBSD going?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 18:07:28 -0000 Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 7:27 PM -0800 1/9/04, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > >> Hi; >> >> There is a comparison here: >> http://better-scm.berlios.de/comparison/comparison.html >> >> I think there are compelling reasons to try subversion, >> but we have to wait for a 1.0 Release, and this would be >> something that should be done gradually.. for example >> moving the ports tree first. > > > That's a pretty major test! Could we perhaps pick off > something smaller? The "projects" repository, for > instance? (or is that still tied to the base-system?) > > (I am very interested in subversion, but it is still > something I need to learn more about...) > I haven't been following this too closely, so forgive me if this has been mentioned. Does Subversion support any type of transaction based committing? One of the frequent problems with CVS is when someone grabs source while someone is in the middle of a large or multi-part commit. -- Ryan Sommers ryans@gamersimpact.com