[ros-kernel] Subversion

[Jason Filby]

Hi Steven

Why does one feature that is not any better than CVS invalidate other
features that are? Better merging/branching are to be looked at for
the next release anyway. What are the examples were it is worse at
merging/branching?

Cheers
Jason

Steven Edwards wrote:

>Hello,
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>--- Thomas Weidenmueller <thomas at reactsoft.com> wrote:
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>>I've had some time and converted the reactos and freeldr repository
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>>to 
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>>subversion (it took me 13:30 hours on a P2 with 400mhz).
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>>cvs2svn still doesn't handle ascii files properly (that makes 
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>>line-breaks in text files unix-like) so i think once this is fixed,
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>>we 
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>>could switch to subversion.
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>After talking with the subversion developers and Alexandre from Wine
I
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>am having my doubts about moving to it. While some of the new
feature
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>such as atomic commits are nice additions, I dont know if its worth
the
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>trouble. Merging/Branching is only as good or in some cases worse
than
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>CVS.
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>Thanks
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>Steven
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>


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