* Curtis Olson -- 8/21/2008 5:46 PM: > I also really like how svn handles group and user authentication ... > it does it outside of the unix account system which makes the system > much easier to manage.
Unix permissions are well understood and not hard to handle. They are the most straightforward way to handle user rights. Not surprising, given that that's what they were invented for. But there are two add-ons for git to manage user permissions via a single system account. (I sent you a private mail about them a few weeks ago.) > From the standpoint of taking small steps, I think it makes sense to > migrate towards svn, and then we can still keep the git discussion open > as a separate issue. In theory, yes. In practice I doubt it. Once we switched to SVN you will consider it "good enough" and won't seriously look at GIT again. Even our broken CVS setup was considered good enough for years, until today, although the creator of a directory now "owns" it, and you have to manually fix the permissions to let anyone else write to it. You didn't have time to fix that. For years. I don't like SVN much. Sure, change sets and moving files are something that we'd really need. But I find the .svn dirs messy and not trustworthy. Once I got a network interruption during updating, and I could not resume. (No, svn cleanup didn't help.) I had to check out everything again. But then again, I still don't really know how well GIT would work for us. It's perfect for text files -- for code. But it would make me a bit nervous if an aircraft developer commits several pointless updates of 5MB sound files. GIT can't compress that. We'd collect the whole pile on our disks. How much would disk space requirements grow each year? m. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
