I won't talk about the pro's / cons of CVS v subversion, but
I can offer our experiences at work using subversion.

We started using subversion after Geoff Bowers inpsired us
all at MXDU with his version control talk :-) We have had no
problems at all with gettting it working, nor its realibity.
 We use homesite and tortoiseSVN.

We went with SVN as it supports binary files as well as
ASCII ( so you can merge word docs etc).  We are now storing
all our documentation as well as code in SVN.

We are also using another product called TRAC
(http://trac.edgewall.com) to manage our issue tracking. 
This integrates really well with subversion (Im sure you can
use this with CVS also).  We are able to enter in an issue
and see the related code change in subversion through the
timeline feature.  This has proved to be real handy.

Any other experiences?

Steve
>>> Craig McDonald<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/30/04
04:40pm >>>

Can somebody give me a very quick rundown on the pros of
subversion vs cvs?

If there's a good reason to migrate... we're currently using
CVS and it 
works well for us, so would need a decent reason to go to
the effort of 
migrating our cvs repos.

We're eclipse as our cvs client btw. Can't go past eclipse
for ur CF IDE 
now IMO - I love it. It has everything.

Craig.

Geoff Bowers wrote:

> 
> TRACEY, Darren wrote:
> 
>> I'm about to implement a new version control system. My
choice for 
>> version
>> control is now down to either CVS or SVN (Subversion).
>> The scales were tipping in favour of SVN, until someone
mentioned to 
>> me that
>> SVN didn't integrate well with IDEs yet. They were a java
developer 
>> and not
>> a CF developer, so this opinion may or may not apply to
what I want to 
>> do.
>> I was planning on using either TortoiseCVS or TortoiseSVN
on the clients.
>> I personally use Homesite+, but others use Dreamweaver.
At some future 
>> point
>> we may want to explore the possibility of using Eclipse
as well.
>> I'm under the impression that the Tortoise clients will
just work with
>> Homesite, but how will they go with Dreamweaver? Do I
need to use a 
>> client
>> at all, or will these IDEs just plug into the CVS or SNV
servers?
> 
> 
> SVN is a better product.  CVS is better supported.  Good
SVN -> CVS 
> conversion tools exist.
> 
> We have evaluated SVN and will be migrating -- but not
yet.  We use a 
> variety of different CVS tools and not all of them have
equivalents in SVN.
> 
> If all you use is Tortoise and have never needed anything
else -- SVN is 
> the go.  Otherwise the scales might tip the other way, for
now. 
> Certainly interest in SVN is growing but CVS is generally
very good so 
> there is a considerable amount of inertia if you know what
I mean.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> -- geoff
> PS. Daemon is hiring!
> http://www.daemon.com.au/go/company/jobs 
> 
> 





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