Bas Zoetekouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter wrote: [...] > > And what are the gains from moving to Subversion? Besides tracking copies > > and having a globally unique revision history, I can't really see any > > gains as far as webwml is concerned. But feel free to enlighten me. > > Better robustness, for one. While converting the CVS repository to svn, > we found quite a few half-commited files and stuff like that. That > shouldn't happen with subversion anymore.
Can you fix the ones in CVS, please? > Furthermore, svn has a bit > nicer offline operation than CVS (although it is nothing like git, of > course), What offline operation does svn have now? I thought it only worked offline properly with things like git-svn. > and it supports things like file moves (retaining chinge history). Peter wrote "besides tracking copies". > Also, subversion is actually actively maintained upstream. Is this to suggest that CVS isn't actually actively maintained upstream? info-cvs seems to be ticking over still, so why? Please, don't move from CVS to SVN and junk all the contributors and many of their tools for a minimal gain like tracking file moves. Consider moving to something which gives new useful features like distributed working directly, like git. Regards, -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
