Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 20:15:05 +0200 From: Ulrich Spoerlein <uspoerlein@gmail.com> To: Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Subversion documentation for the FreeBSD project? Message-ID: <20080603181505.GF1592@roadrunner.spoerlein.net> In-Reply-To: <p06240803c46b2d451333@[128.113.124.153]> References: <20080603164503.GC1592@roadrunner.spoerlein.net> <p06240803c46b2d451333@[128.113.124.153]>
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On Tue, 03.06.2008 at 13:28:01 -0400, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > At 6:45 PM +0200 6/3/08, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > seems like I totally missed the effort to port the FreeBSD CVS to SVN. > > Is there some documentation around, that describes the New Way for us > > mere mortals? Specific questions that come to my mind: > > > > - How will repository propagation be done in the future? rsync? > > - Is there one big svn tree or src/ ports/ doc/ seperately? > > - Did you fixup the CVS repo-copies into real SVN renames? > > - Will svn(1) ever be part of the base system? > > - Some statistics about repo-size would be nice :) > > It is still a work in progress, and people who do not need commit > access should (for now) not do anything special. All the CVS-based > services should still be working, and it is probably best to continue > to use those for now. It is still possible that we'll hit some > unexpected cases in subversion, and find that we have to switch right > back to CVS. Ok then, no burned bridges yet :) > Please realize that a LOT of work was involved in making this switch > (none of which was done by me... ahem). So we don't mean to dismiss > your request or your interest, but we're just not ready with all the > answers that you would like to see. No problem, I'm not in a hurry and applaud the effort in general. I'm only curious why the "switch" (test?) was/is done in "secret" and no HEADSUP has been sent so far (or did I miss it?) I hope people don't mind me dragging the issue out into the open... Cheers, Ulrich Spoerlein -- It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak, and remove all doubt.
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