[ros-kernel] Subversion

[Jason Filby]

Casper brought this to my attention a few weeks back (although he's
been 
following Subversion's progress for a long time now). I've also 
discussed it with Vizzini and it looks like something we should 
definitely try out.

Cheers
Jason

Royce Mitchell III wrote:

> > Since Subversion 1.0 has been released I'm wondering if there are
any
> intentions to maybe
>
> > move to subversion in the near future. It's got some nice
features
> that could be useful.
>
>
>
> We started playing with Subversion yesterday. I spent a lot of time
just
> reading about it.
>
>
>
> Here's my (incomplete) summary of the pertinent differences:
>
>
>
> * better support for Windows.
>
>
>
> * sends diffs in both directions ( this is accomplished by keeping
a
> virgin copy of every file you have checked out on your hard drive -
> doubles the space your checked-out source takes ). I would think
this
> would mean it takes less bandwidth.
>
>
>
> * better conflict handling - harder to accidentally check in a
> conflicted file.
>
>
>
> * roll-back support.
>
>
>
> * atomic commits.
>
>
>
> I've only had a taste of it, and I'm not 100% convinced I want to
switch
> over, yet, but we'll see what happens.
>
>
>
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