Re: [crossfire] Backup(?) CVS via darcs

2006-05-08 Thread Mark Wedel
To me, there are perhaps two issues, which may or may not be related: 1) Ability to have multiple repositories on stable systems. 2) What source control tool to use. Right now, and probably with any source control tool, multiple _read only_ repositories could be done. In CVS, this would b

Re: [crossfire] Backup(?) CVS via darcs

2006-05-04 Thread Alex Schultz
Lalo Martins wrote: >An now on to Tailor: > >Tailor is a tool originally written to sync SVN (or was it CVS?) >repositories to Darcs. It's now a very interesting cross-VC syncer. I >helped Rednaxela set up a Tailor config to mirror crossfire's cvs repo to >bzr (with the intention of using the bz

Re: [crossfire] Backup(?) CVS via darcs

2006-05-04 Thread Lalo Martins
Yes. Please. *Any* distributed version control system. On Wed, 03 May 2006 22:59:28 -0600, Alex Schultz wrote: > SVN: > Rather nice and mature, and a very easy learning curve from CVS. It has > the "advantage" that we could stick with sourceforge for version > control, however that could easil

Re: [crossfire] Backup(?) CVS via darcs

2006-05-04 Thread Alex Schultz
Brendan Lally wrote: >On 5/4/06, Alex Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Here is my opinion >>of Darcs as well as some other alternatives to CVS: >> >> >Is there any reason why GNU Arch hasn't been considered in your >comparison? Is there something wrong with it that discounts it >stra

Re: [crossfire] Backup(?) CVS via darcs

2006-05-04 Thread Brendan Lally
On 5/4/06, Alex Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is my opinion > of Darcs as well as some other alternatives to CVS: Is there any reason why GNU Arch hasn't been considered in your comparison? Is there something wrong with it that discounts it straight away? (NB: I have never used it, but

Re: [crossfire] Backup(?) CVS via darcs

2006-05-03 Thread David Seikel
On Wed, 03 May 2006 22:59:28 -0600 Alex Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and also if we don't use sourceforge we will be free from various > limitations Enlightenment, which was the second project to ever join sourceforge, moved it's cvs completely over to it's own server, just two days befor

Re: [crossfire] Backup(?) CVS via darcs

2006-05-03 Thread Alex Schultz
Alex Schultz wrote: >Darcs: >Like SVN, also seems to good mature one. I don't know much about it but >it looks like it might be nicer than either SVN or CVS in many ways. It >would however have a little bit of a steeper learning curve from cvs >users, but personally I'm *very* willing to learn

Re: [crossfire] Backup(?) CVS via darcs

2006-05-03 Thread Alex Schultz
I've been thinking about this a bit, and IMHO, switching to anything but CVS would be an improvement, and that switching would be good for the long term, not just for backup. For one, just about any other version control system allows local branches of the code easier which would be helpful for

[crossfire] Backup(?) CVS via darcs

2006-05-03 Thread Rick Tanner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For possible discussion... Now that we are looking at week #6 of anonymous CVS access at SourceForge being offline (and development CVS access off & on during that time..) what about using something like darcs which is a distributed revision control