Re: [all][VOTE] svn migration

[Joe Germuska]

I haven't followed every bit of the thread on the SVN migration, but 
I just want to echo Martin Cooper's sentiments: once you start using 
it, you realize how badly CVS was in need of an overhaul.  For 
Struts, not only have there been no committers who have mentioned any 
significant problems in switching, but as Martin noted, we've been 
able to do a lot to clean up the repository.  (Admittedly something 
which may be less necessary for Commons projects.)  The most notable 
incident I personally experienced was about half-an-hour's research 
and experimentation to understand the differences in how SVN does 
keyword substitution.

The SVN command-line client is easy to use and far better documented 
than CVS (http://svnbook.red-bean.com/svnbook-1.1/index.html), and 
I've recently been played around with Subclipse for Eclipse, and it 
seems to be about what you'd need in terms of IDE integration.  Don't 
know about IDE level support for other tools, but Windows users also 
speak well of Tortoise SVN.

I'm still trying to figure out how to get a convenient list of what 
tags have been applied to a file (and which version they are) 
comparable to the beginning of a 'cvs log' command, and similar 
functionality seems to not yet be in viewcvs for SVN repositories -- 
but that hasn't been a major issue.

I am definitely +1 on migrating to SVN.
Joe
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