On 26/2/03 21:22, "Stefano Mazzocchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes... A few. Pruning a tree by hand is a _very_ bad idea, IMVHO, because it'll destroy all history of the project, and in our case, as we're using branches, not only of the 2.1 tree, but of the 2.0 as well.
Maybe so, but what about getting rid of JARs for real? Esp. ones that we may have found were incompatible with distributing them at apache?
But having managed CVS installs for the past 4 years, now, I kinda see the point, the more you add stuff into history, the heavier the repository gets.
What about storing a log dump somewhere?
I mean, there comes a time where history is no longer useful. Then again, according to murphy's law as soon as you get rid of something you will then need it.
Subversion _will_ solve this issue, that's for sure, so my suggestion would be to move over onto that system, but there are IMHO, still issues with the availability of non-command line clients. I would wait to start using it until <http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/> doesn't start working properly and it gets more widely deployed (I'm watching that space because we want to use it at VNU).
I am not afraid of the command line, but there were issues with the release of the Windows client the last time I messed with it. When run on XP, it would fail miserably (core dump or something, can't quite remember). The information on the server was OK, but sometimes I had to make a commit more than once.
I would like to see SubVersion improve a bit before making everyone switch. The client reliability issue is what has me gun shy about it. (No issues with the server that I can tell).
