Craig Ringer wrote: > Hi > > For all of you who track CVS, I'm writing to let you know that we're > planning on moving to Subversion fairly soon. This should mean faster > updates and checkouts for basic anonymous svn users. For those of you > doing development work from anonsvn, you'll get MUCH faster diffs and > reverts, a status command that's actually useful, and lots more. > > Now is a good time to grab a subversion client so you're ready to go > when we make the switch. > > Migration instructions will be posted once anonymous svn is available. > The migration is very quick and simple for anonymous access, though it > WILL require a full new checkout. The only big difference is how you > check out different branches, as will be explained in detail soon. > > Anonymous CVS will be shut down when the svn switch is made. It's just > not practical to try to keep them in sync, and moving to svn is easy > enough that it won't be too much fuss. > > In terms of client selection, the command line client is always a good > choice, especially on *nix. Most anonsvn users will be happy using this, > since it's basically like the cvs command line client but faster, better > behaved, and with a cleaned up interface. > > KdeSVN seems to be the most popular GUI client for *nix. Windows users > tend to use TortoiseSVN, and Mac users seem to go for the command line > client or SvnX . > > A list of clients is available at: > > http://subversion.tigris.org/links.html#clients > > for your downloading pleasure. > The distros should have it, right?
My FC6 has subversion-1.4.3-2.fc6 New enough? Greg
