Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 11:10:52 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: "Joseph Koshy" <joseph.koshy@gmail.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, Divacky Roman <xdivac02@stud.fit.vutbr.cz> Subject: Re: Subversion? (Re: HEADS UP: Importing csup into base) Message-ID: <26382.1141384252@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Mar 2006 16:33:51 %2B0530." <84dead720603030303p122ea0efn892bf9ffd32fce41@mail.gmail.com>
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In message <84dead720603030303p122ea0efn892bf9ffd32fce41@mail.gmail.com>, "Jose ph Koshy" writes: >phk> Considering how much stuff a change of vcs would affect, just think >phk> about all the scripts and routines the committers have on their >phk> development computers, a significantly better reason than "it is >phk> prettier" is required. > >A 'distributed' VCS with good support for branching and merging would >ease the work of our non-committer volunteers. I'm sure that there are many sound arguments for switching to one or the other vcs, but the crucial test is: are the arguments good enough to make the disruption and hazzle worth it. So far I have not heard anything which comes even close to meeting that threshold... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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