On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Doug Rabson wrote: DR> I've been re-evaluating the current subversion over the last couple of DR> weeks and its holding up pretty well so far. It still misses the DR> repeated merge thing that p4 does so well but in practice, merging does DR> seem to be a lot easier than with CVS due to the repository-wide DR> revision numbering system - that makes it easy to remember when your DR> last merge happened so that you don't merge a change twice. DR> DR> The three main showstoppers for moving FreeBSD to subversion would be: DR> DR> 1. A replacement for cvsup. Probably quite doable using svnadmin DR> dump and load. DR> 2. Support for $FreeBSD$ - user-specified keywords are not supported DR> and won't be until after svn-1.0 by the looks of things. DR> 3. Converting the repository. This is a tricky one - I tried the DR> current version of the migration scripts and they barfed and died DR> pretty quickly. Still, I'm pretty sure that the svn developers DR> are planning to fix most of those problems. From mailing-list DR> archives, it appears that they are using our cvs tree as test DR> material for the migration scripts.
For the third point, take a look at http://lev.serebryakov.spb.ru/refinecvs/refinecvs-0.71.763.tar.g The author uses FreeBSD repository as main test field ;-) Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
