Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:18:50 +0100 From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Brad Knowles <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Public Access to Perforce? Message-ID: <200408301318.50737.dfr@nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <p06002080bd589f9c8d7d@[10.0.1.3]> References: <200408160104.03708.chris@behanna.org> <200408301005.58602.dfr@nlsystems.com> <p06002080bd589f9c8d7d@[10.0.1.3]>
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On Monday 30 August 2004 10:15, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 10:05 AM +0100 2004-08-30, Doug Rabson quoted David O'Brien: > >> For what the project uses Perforce for, SVN > >> would offer nothing. > > > > True. That doesn't mean that subversion isn't better than CVS > > though. > > That's not the point. The point is that subversion is not better > than Perforce, at least for the functions for which the FreeBSD > project uses Perforce. > > The debate is not between Perforce vs. CVS or subversion vs. CVS, > but whether subversion or Perforce is a better replacement for CVS > for certain specific functions. This is a debate that can only > reasonably occur between people who actually understand both > alternative tools to a sufficient degree. > > > I think that the point being made by David O'Brien was that there > were a lot of people standing up and being indignant about the way > subversion was being treated in this discussion but then saying that > they didn't know how it compared to Perforce. This is > counter-productive, to say the least. I don't think I was trying to suggest that we should use subversion to replace either cvs or perforce at this point. I just wanted to correct the slightly harsh description of how subversion compares to cvs in real-world usage. Right now, the only thing which perforce has over subversion feature-wise is built-in support for repeated merging. Since that is currently what we use perforce for, subversion is not a suitable replacement. It could replace what we currently do with cvs but there isn't much point if it can't also replace perforce.home | help
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