From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 9 15:35:56 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 7C0C116A4CE; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 15:35:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from woozle.rinet.ru (woozle.rinet.ru [195.54.192.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 150E543D31; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 15:35:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woozle.rinet.ru (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i09NZfNq091810; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 02:35:42 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 02:35:41 +0300 (MSK) From: Dmitry Morozovsky To: Doug Rabson In-Reply-To: <1073582974.37229.8.camel@herring.nlsystems.com> Message-ID: <20040110023448.A86447@woozle.rinet.ru> References: <1073582974.37229.8.camel@herring.nlsystems.com> X-NCC-RegID: ru.rinet MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org cc: Robert Watson cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org cc: Mark Murray Subject: 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: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 23:35:56 -0000 On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Doug Rabson wrote: DR> I've been re-evaluating the current subversion over the last couple of DR> weeks and its holding up pretty well so far. It still misses the DR> repeated merge thing that p4 does so well but in practice, merging does DR> seem to be a lot easier than with CVS due to the repository-wide DR> revision numbering system - that makes it easy to remember when your DR> last merge happened so that you don't merge a change twice. DR> DR> The three main showstoppers for moving FreeBSD to subversion would be: DR> DR> 1. A replacement for cvsup. Probably quite doable using svnadmin DR> dump and load. DR> 2. Support for $FreeBSD$ - user-specified keywords are not supported DR> and won't be until after svn-1.0 by the looks of things. DR> 3. Converting the repository. This is a tricky one - I tried the DR> current version of the migration scripts and they barfed and died DR> pretty quickly. Still, I'm pretty sure that the svn developers DR> are planning to fix most of those problems. From mailing-list DR> archives, it appears that they are using our cvs tree as test DR> material for the migration scripts. For the third point, take a look at http://lev.serebryakov.spb.ru/refinecvs/refinecvs-0.71.763.tar.g The author uses FreeBSD repository as main test field ;-) Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------