There is a cvs2arch convertor. This is a bit of a hack though. It only works with the HEAD branch (which is okay): http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-arch-users/2003-08/msg00198.html
However, arch may be dead. It *was* very popular, and *did* have a very active community, last year, but there is only one person (tom lord) on the savannah dev list, and rumours of it dying a death after he left. It is also probably a bit complex to use. Also can be quite slow fetching a revision. However it is post-1.0, and widely used, so presumably fairly stable. Also does not support Windows well. Also there is a more general and stable convertor that can move between CVS, ArX, Darcs, and Monotone: http://darcs.net/DarcsWiki/Tailor Darcs is interesting, although it has a couple of issues: http://abridgegame.org/darcs/ http://lwn.net/Articles/110516/#Comments Darcs does not have cryptographic signatures, which is an interesting side-issue. Also can be slow in merging. Can import from CVS, Arch or Subversion. More on darcs and arch [2] - search for darcs. ArX is also promising: http://www.nongnu.org/arx/ Has all the basic features, should be reasonably simple to use, is more or less fully distributed but slow over high latency networking. Hopefully this won't be a problem for Freenet 0.7. So, does anyone have any opinions? Anyone used any of these? My impression is that Subversion is essentially the same architecture as CVS; it doesn't have any of the modern features such as proper distribution/p2p support. It is however a significant improvement on CVS, as Ian has pointed out. IMHO we should choose a CVS replacement, and use it. Hopefully bandwidth issues from anonymous checkouts won't be too big a problem; dodo has 15GB/mo. Personally I am of the opinion that something with proper distribution support i.e. not Subversion, would be better because it would be easier to adapt to Freenet, and because it would help third parties who are on the periphery and therefore don't have CVS write access. All the above (and many more) have atomic commits. ArX and Darcs claim to have good merging. According to [1], Subversion's merging is inferior to anything modern. [1] yet another link, rather old: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/01/29/scm_overview.html another more recent comparison: http://www.nongnu.org/arx/codecon/codecon.html [2] another comparison http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/scm.html Anyone with experience in any of the above? With most of the above, we can provide a read-only repository via HTTP with no extra modules needed, so anonymous checkout isn't necessarily a problem either. There are also public options such as sourcecontrol.net. Sourceforge and savannah can do arch (and presumably bazaar) also. On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 05:41:13PM +0100, Matthew Toseland wrote: > http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch > http://www.gnuarch.org/arch/arch-overview.html > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 05:27:36PM +0100, Matthew Toseland wrote: > > http://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-arch/ > > > > Anyone had any experience? There is already a port to freenet, and the > > guy who wrote it might perhaps be persuaded to update it; if not, we > > might, eventually. The description sounds good. > -- > Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ > ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. > _______________________________________________ > chat mailing list > chat@freenetproject.org > Archived: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.general > Unsubscribe at http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chat > Or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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