Date: 2004-07-01T19:52:01 Editor: HenriYandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wiki: Jakarta Wiki Page: Migrating to Subversion URL: http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta/Migrating to Subversion
no comment New Page: = Migrating to Subversion = Migrating from CVS to [http://subversion.tigris.org/ Subversion] is an ASF desired event for Jakarta. == Positives == One major plus is that it simplifies the life of the infrastructure team. They no longer need UNIX accounts for each user, but can maintain users in htaccess files (behind SSL). There are many developer pluses too. Subversion gives us the ability to move files within the repository and maintain the history, to treat groups of files in one commit as a single transaction and has faster speed on tagging. == Questions == * What do we do with legal issues? If a non-ASF allowed licensed file appears in the repository, can we obliterate it? Is it a problem if we can't? * Is the community's toolset fully supported? * How do we educate the community? * Do we need to migrate dead cvs modules? ie) jakarta-site? == Negatives == * Tagging is just a directory copy. Tags which are more than a simple directory tree get trickier. ie) tagging without tagging all the files, or tagging plus a set of files in a sibling directory. The trick of doing 'cvs status -v build.xml' to list known tags for a module is no longer available as well. * Installation. An SVN client, especially with SSL support, seems trickier to install than CVS. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
