On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 11:53:13 +0100, Thomas Hallgren wrote: > Andrew McMillan wrote: >> Switching to Arch is more work, but it also offers a lot more benefits - >> including the opportunity for individuals to maintain their own trees, >> and be able to work out which patchsets from someone else's tree have >> not been applied. If anything is going to become the open-source >> BitKeeper it will be this, I think. >> > For those interested in SVN versus arch, I found the following from Tom > Lord (the guy behind Arch) > > http://web.mit.edu/ghudson/thoughts/diagnosing > > and a reply from Greg Hudson (SVN developer) > > http://web.mit.edu/ghudson/thoughts/undiagnosing. >
There is a fairly detailed comparison in the GNU Arch wiki as well. <URL: http://wiki.gnuarch.org/moin.cgi/SubVersionAndCvsComparison> Note: if you're a postgres committer you may have more luck seeking out your nearest SCM advocate -- almost all of them would regard Postgres migrating to their preferred SCM as a 'win' -- let them work for you by walking you through things. Cheers, Anand ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend