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Date:      Sat, 10 Jan 2004 09:05:50 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@yahoo.com>
To:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SCM options (was Re: Where is FreeBSD going?)
Message-ID:  <20040110170550.34302.qmail@web13425.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <p06020453bc2558823646@[128.113.24.47]>

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--- Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> 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 think we must wait until a 1.0 version is available. 

SVN is meant to be a replacement to CVS. The projects repository is using
perforce which happens to be a good tool, so moving it to svn is probably not a
step forward IMHO ;-).

cheers,

   Pedro. 

 

> -- 
> Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
> Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
> Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu


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