Hi, would people here support a conversion of the FreeDOS CVS repository (kernel, freecom, install, mem) to Subversion (SVN)? One big plus is that CRLF problems would be mostly a thing of the past... what has happened a lot is that people check out CVS files on *nix, get LF line endings, correct them to CRLF, check them back in, people on Windows check them out, see CRCRLF nonsense line ending, correct them, check them back in, and the game continues. Or files in .zip files get the wrong line endings, etc. With Subversion, you can specify a CRLF line ending for all text files so these things won't happen. I've used Subversion for a while with DOSEMU and it works well.
I must say (from private mail) that Eric would rather stay with CVS because of unfamiliarity with SVN and the fact that the working directories take up twice the space (ie. 4MB instead of 2 for the kernel for instance). The extra space comes from the caching of the repository contents locally, which has its advantages too because an "svn diff" or "svn revert" does not need to contact the server. Another thing that may annoy some is that there exists no SVN client for DOS. On the other hand, there exists no network aware CVS client either... so I don't think anyone has ever checked out CVS sources from SF on DOS. Thus this is more of a theoretical issue. What do others think? I'd be happy to do the conversion myself. Bart ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
