On Sat, 29 Aug 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:

> On Sat, 29 Aug 2009, Jason Dagit wrote:
>
>> Unless you have very large code base, history, or very large files 
>> I doubt you will benefit from git compared with other distributed 
>> version control systems.
>
> Jason,
>
>   None of the above.
>
>> If you are a casual vcs user and you want a solid vcs that 
>> emphasizes ease of use, try darcs.  It's mature, stable, and gets a 
>> lot of praise for ease of use. http://darcs.net
>
>   OK.
>
>   Subversion worked fine for a couple of years. But among upgrades 
> to the distribution, BDB, and Subversion itself, something broke. 
> That's not nice behavior.
>
>   I'll try darcs.

Rich,

Listening to a computer scientist will get you into lots of mischief. 
Plus, he's not disinterested in this matter, as he contributed code to 
the darcs project. (Hi, Jason!)

Subversion will work quite easily without BDB. In fact, I believe 
non-BDB is now the default.

If you still have a copy of your old repo, I'm pretty sure we could 
get it to the point where you could

  1) Dump the old repo
  2) Create a new svn repo that uses the "fsfs" backend (no BDB)
  3) Import the dump into the new repo

Otherwise, it's easy to create a non-BDB subversion repository:

   svnadmin create $SVNROOT --fs-type fsfs

(As I mentioned, I think fsfs is now the default.)

You can backup a fsfs $SVNROOT directly. It will migrate across 
platforms rather easily.

-- 
Paul Heinlein <> [email protected] <> www.madboa.com
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