From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 25 20:14:30 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62BDF16A469 for ; Fri, 25 May 2007 20:14:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9DBC13C4C7 for ; Fri, 25 May 2007 20:14:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from kobe.laptop (dialup171.ach.sch.gr [81.186.70.171]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id l4PKDCGc007852 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 25 May 2007 23:13:21 +0300 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l4PKBMFF002641; Fri, 25 May 2007 23:11:52 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l4PKB7oJ002640; Fri, 25 May 2007 23:11:07 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 23:11:07 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Jonathan Weiss Message-ID: <20070525201106.GE1824@kobe.laptop> References: <20070525074925.GA19294@uk.tiscali.com> <20070525104342.GA2761@kobe.laptop> <4656D01F.4070701@innerewut.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4656D01F.4070701@innerewut.de> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.688, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.51, BAYES_00 -2.60, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE 0.20) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Using Subversion for binary distribution? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 20:14:30 -0000 On 2007-05-25 14:01, Jonathan Weiss wrote: >Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> The checked out tree would be "polluted" with .svn/ >> subdirectories with all the metadata of the Subversion >> workspace too (that's where permissions will be tricky to get >> right). > > The is always SVK with does not pollute the working dir. Yay! I'm not mad for suggesting a distributed SCM in another post elsethread. You're right of course. Now, I'm not 100% sure I like the idea of using an SCM tool for managing binary files like the FreeBSD base system, but it's kind of nice that other people like the idea of using a distributed SCM for this :)