subversion? (was: [ODE] From unstable to trunk...)

George Birbilis birbilis at kagi.com
Thu Jun 30 22:42:35 MST 2005


btw, for Windows the TortoiseSVN is very nice SVN client (also the 
TortoiseCVS for CVS), both available from tigris.org for free

there's also a big SVN book for download at tigris.org for those who want to 
learn all the details regarding SVN servers etc.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adam D. Moss" <adam at gimp.org>
To: "ode" <ODE at q12.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 4:23 PM
Subject: subversion? (was: [ODE] From unstable to trunk...)


> Jon Watte (ODE) wrote:
>> Is it time to change to something like Perforce or Subversion, which 
>> tracks specific related change sets? It's much easier to integrate "this 
>> particular patch" with those tools.
>
> I would welcome Subversion, it's a pleasure to use.  It's a
> royal pain to isolate multi-file changes in CVS after-the-fact.
>
>> tigris.org is a hosting site that lets you host on Subversion for free, 
>> btw. (I don't know where SourceForge is at WRT Subversion project 
>> hosting)
>
> SF have been muttering about Subversion for a year or so, but
> they're incredibly slow to address any sort of user needs, IMO...
>
> tigris.org is likely very trustworthy, but I'd be interested in
> more opinions from ODEy people about a move to SVN.  tigris.org
> might not support the (hooks for the) sorts of tree policies we
> have regarding different auth groups for trunk versus the unstable
> branch, etc.  There's also a question of whether we can convert
> our valuable CVS history to SVN (the conversion isn't hard, but
> the CVS permissions needed to do this might not be obtainable
> from SF - dunno).
>
> --adam
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