Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-09-01 Thread Tristan Seligmann
* Thaddeus H. Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-08-31 15:13:30 +]: This is an interesting thread: cvs, svn, arch, tla, baz, bzr, git, .. (have I forgotten any?). Lurking, darcs, mercurial, monotone, codeville, vesta, dcvs, superversion, siveco, bky, ... -- mithrandi, i Ainil en-Balandor, a

Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-09-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 11:05:11PM +0200, Tristan Seligmann wrote: * Thaddeus H. Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-08-31 15:13:30 +]: This is an interesting thread: cvs, svn, arch, tla, baz, bzr, git, .. (have I forgotten any?). Lurking, darcs, mercurial, monotone, codeville, vesta,

Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-08-31 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
This is an interesting thread: cvs, svn, arch, tla, baz, bzr, git, .. (have I forgotten any?). Lurking, however, I admit that I was getting a little lost. The thread is as the story whose middle and ending are told, without the beginning. A little digging with Google finds this [1] by David A.

Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-08-31 Thread John Goerzen
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 03:13:30PM +, Thaddeus H. Black wrote: This is an interesting thread: cvs, svn, arch, tla, baz, bzr, git, .. (have I forgotten any?). Lurking, Darcs! My favorite tool these days, incredibly easy to use, and seems to Do The Right Thing (TM) with merges more

Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-08-31 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Thaddeus H. Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.08.31.1713 +0200]: A little digging with Google finds this [1] by David A. Wheeler. It provides useful background to the thread, so the reference is posted here for the benefit of other confused thread lurkers. More info:

Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-08-31 Thread Florian Weimer
* John Goerzen: On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 03:13:30PM +, Thaddeus H. Black wrote: This is an interesting thread: cvs, svn, arch, tla, baz, bzr, git, .. (have I forgotten any?). Lurking, Darcs! My favorite tool these days, incredibly easy to use, and seems to Do The Right Thing (TM) with

Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-08-31 Thread Jérôme Marant
John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 03:13:30PM +, Thaddeus H. Black wrote: This is an interesting thread: cvs, svn, arch, tla, baz, bzr, git, .. (have I forgotten any?). Lurking, Darcs! My favorite tool these days, incredibly easy to use, and seems to Do

Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-08-31 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 00:17 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: Could you please elaborate on this? Hmm. Where to start :0. perhaps with storage. bzr currently stores the different variations of each file that is versioned in 'stores', which are a collection of files named by their hash, gzipped. (Its

Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-08-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
On 8/20/05, Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Compared to SVN from the view of somebody who is acquainted with CVS, arch sucks badly. I tend to agree with most of the things that Florian Weimer lists on http://www.enyo.de/fw/software/arch/design-issues.html To which I'd respond that

Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-08-30 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.08.30.1404 +0200]: But I'm leaving the Arch (tla/baz/bzr) boat too - patch-oriented SCMs were fun, but very disappointing. There is a central design flaw in pure patch tracking, and neither Arch nor DARCS do anything about it: no matter how

Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-08-30 Thread George Danchev
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 15:32, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.08.30.1404 +0200]: But I'm leaving the Arch (tla/baz/bzr) boat too - patch-oriented SCMs were fun, but very disappointing. There is a central design flaw in pure patch tracking, and

Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-08-30 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 00:04 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: On 8/20/05, Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Compared to SVN from the view of somebody who is acquainted with CVS, arch sucks badly. I tend to agree with most of the things that Florian Weimer lists on

Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-08-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
On 8/31/05, George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does git aide you in identifying the differences in changes between two trees? George's got it right. In practice, I normally use gitk --all, or use cogito thus: cg-log -r onebranch:otherbranch cg-diff -r onebranch:otherbranch

Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-08-30 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.08.30.2346 +0200]: for the record, to avoid other folk getting confused - bzr isn't a 'patch orientated SCM'. bzr's design incorporates elements from all of the VCS systems around when the project was started (and updated since then) - its not

Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-08-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
On 8/31/05, Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for the record, to avoid other folk getting confused - bzr isn't a 'patch orientated SCM'. bzr's design incorporates elements from all of the VCS systems around when the project was started (and updated since then) - its not derived from GNU

Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-08-30 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 15:25 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: On 8/31/05, Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for the record, to avoid other folk getting confused - bzr isn't a 'patch orientated SCM'. bzr's design incorporates elements from all of the VCS systems around when the project was

Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-08-29 Thread Miles Bader
martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When we speak about arch these days, we mean baz. Except of course, when we don't... -Miles -- `Suppose Korea goes to the World Cup final against Japan and wins,' Moon said. `All the past could be forgiven.' [NYT] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-08-24 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Peter Samuelson | [Tollef Fog Heen] | I just stumbled across one issue: it doesn't handle the case where | you change your encoding without checking out the repository again: | | : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/svn/trunk LANG=en_US.UTF-8 svn st | svn: Valid UTF-8 data | (hex: 46) | followed by

Re: arch, svn, cvs (was: Bug#323855: ITP: opencvs -- OpenBSD CVS implementation with special emphasis in security)

2005-08-24 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 02:22:26PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:06:49 +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd love to see people migrating to Arch Compared to SVN from the view of somebody who is acquainted with CVS, arch sucks badly. I tend to agree with

Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-08-24 Thread Florian Weimer
* Francesco P. Lovergine: Comparing svn and arch is like comparing apples and tomatos. They have completely different purposes (i.e. centralized vs distributed). The purpose is the same (collaboration ona code base), only the means are quite different. The available implemnetations also

Re: arch, svn, cvs (was: Bug#323855: ITP: opencvs -- OpenBSD CVS implementation with special emphasis in security)

2005-08-22 Thread Amaya
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Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-08-21 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Roberto C. Sanchez | OK. Then please just name two or three. I am geniunely interested. | I switched from CVS to subversion exclusively for my own use when | Sarge went stable. I still use CVS occasionally since some projects | to which I contribute use CVS (e.g., on sourceforge). I just

Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-08-21 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Tollef Fog Heen] I just stumbled across one issue: it doesn't handle the case where you change your encoding without checking out the repository again: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/svn/trunk LANG=en_US.UTF-8 svn st svn: Valid UTF-8 data (hex: 46) followed by invalid UTF-8 sequence (hex: f8 72

Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-08-21 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 21:00 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: Greg Hudson contributes an interesting viewpoint: http://web.mit.edu/ghudson/thoughts/bitkeeper.whynot Well written, but does it contribute to our discussion here? Arch and Baz can both be used centrally, and with a group of

Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-08-20 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Greg Hudson contributes an interesting viewpoint: http://web.mit.edu/ghudson/thoughts/bitkeeper.whynot It's completely unfounded bullshit. Whether you prefer a pyramid or lots of commiters style organization is pretty much a personal or rather community organizational issue. Both have

Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-08-20 Thread Florian Weimer
* Roland Mas: The Berkeley DB storage backend was an enormously stupid thing, but that's been fixed (phew). Keep in mind that Berkeley DB is a limtus test, both for developers and system administrators. Those who don't read manuals fail it. I'm storing hundreds of millions of rows in

Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-08-20 Thread Florian Weimer
* Christoph Hellwig: Greg Hudson contributes an interesting viewpoint: http://web.mit.edu/ghudson/thoughts/bitkeeper.whynot It's completely unfounded bullshit. Whether you prefer a pyramid or lots of commiters style organization is pretty much a personal or rather community

Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-08-20 Thread Florian Weimer
* martin f. krafft: also sprach Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.08.19.2146 +0200]: The list is somewhat outdated, and it doesn't reflect some things I've learnt since I wrote that pamphlet. If I find the time, I will contribute my comments to help get the page up to date. Feel free

Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-08-20 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.08.20.2100 +0200]: arch-pqm still requires that people publish their own repositories. Yeah, that it still a problem which resources like arch.debian.org should deal with, a little better at least. I can't find the link now, but I've also heard

Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-08-20 Thread Roland Mas
Florian Weimer, 2005-08-20 20:50:12 +0200 : * Roland Mas: The Berkeley DB storage backend was an enormously stupid thing, but that's been fixed (phew). [...] I'm storing hundreds of millions of rows in Berkeley DB tables and have yet to encounter data loss because of bugs in Berkeley DB

Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-08-20 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's completely unfounded bullshit. Do you have a specific complaint? Or is every single sentence in that post unfounded bullshit? Whether you prefer a pyramid or lots of commiters style organization is pretty much a personal or rather community

Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-08-20 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 08:57:06PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: * Christoph Hellwig: Greg Hudson contributes an interesting viewpoint: http://web.mit.edu/ghudson/thoughts/bitkeeper.whynot It's completely unfounded bullshit. Whether you prefer a pyramid or lots of commiters style

Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-08-20 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 08:57:06PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: * Christoph Hellwig: Greg Hudson contributes an interesting viewpoint: http://web.mit.edu/ghudson/thoughts/bitkeeper.whynot It's completely unfounded bullshit. Whether you

Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-08-20 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 02:26:26PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's completely unfounded bullshit. Do you have a specific complaint? Or is every single sentence in that post unfounded bullshit? Pretty much every sentence. I didn't

Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-08-20 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pretty much every sentence. I didn't want to go through because it's rather offtopic here, but as you're requesting it: So you disagree with his arguments. That does not warrant your abusive language, or your incorrect claim that his arguments are

Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-08-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 03:17:35PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: like a foundation already: a bad release manager chose a pyramidal model. That's the beginnings of a good inductive argument. Then we add the other foundation he gives: here's a bunch of well-managed projects, which use a

arch, svn, cvs (was: Bug#323855: ITP: opencvs -- OpenBSD CVS implementation with special emphasis in security)

2005-08-19 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:06:49 +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd love to see people migrating to Arch Compared to SVN from the view of somebody who is acquainted with CVS, arch sucks badly. I tend to agree with most of the things that Florian Weimer lists on

Re: arch, svn, cvs (was: Bug#323855: ITP: opencvs -- OpenBSD CVS implementation with special emphasis in security)

2005-08-19 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.08.19.1422 +0200]: Compared to SVN from the view of somebody who is acquainted with CVS, arch sucks badly. I tend to agree with most of the things that Florian Weimer lists on http://www.enyo.de/fw/software/arch/design-issues.html I won't go

Re: arch, svn, cvs (was: Bug#323855: ITP: opencvs -- OpenBSD CVS implementation with special emphasis in security)

2005-08-19 Thread Daniel Stone
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 02:33:31PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.08.19.1422 +0200]: Compared to SVN from the view of somebody who is acquainted with CVS, arch sucks badly. I tend to agree with most of the things that Florian Weimer lists on

Re: arch, svn, cvs (was: Bug#323855: ITP: opencvs -- OpenBSD CVS implementation with special emphasis in security)

2005-08-19 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.08.19.1422 +0200]: Compared to SVN from the view of somebody who is acquainted with CVS, arch sucks badly. I tend to agree with most of the things that Florian Weimer lists on http://www.enyo.de/fw/software/arch/design-issues.html Looking over the

Re: arch, svn, cvs (was: Bug#323855: ITP: opencvs -- OpenBSD CVS implementation with special emphasis in security)

2005-08-19 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 02:22:26PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: Compared to SVN from the view of somebody who is acquainted with CVS, arch sucks badly. I tend to agree with most of the things that Florian Weimer lists on http://www.enyo.de/fw/software/arch/design-issues.html Note that it's over a

Re: arch, svn, cvs (was: Bug#323855: ITP: opencvs -- OpenBSD CVS implementation with special emphasis in security)

2005-08-19 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 02:33:31PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.08.19.1422 +0200]: Compared to SVN from the view of somebody who is acquainted with CVS, arch sucks badly. I tend to agree with most of the things that Florian Weimer lists on

Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-08-19 Thread Florian Weimer
* Marc Haber: Compared to SVN from the view of somebody who is acquainted with CVS, arch sucks badly. I tend to agree with most of the things that Florian Weimer lists on http://www.enyo.de/fw/software/arch/design-issues.html The list is somewhat outdated, and it doesn't reflect some things

Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-08-19 Thread Roland Mas
Roberto C. Sanchez, 2005-08-19 21:00:18 +0200 : On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 02:33:31PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: [...] I won't go through the trouble to compile the extensive list of problems and design issues with SVN. OK. Then please just name two or three. If I may chime in... The

Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-08-19 Thread Joey Hess
Roland Mas wrote: The Berkeley DB storage backend was an enormously stupid thing, but that's been fixed (phew). My main gripe with Subversion now is that if I'm not mistaken (which I could very well be, since I've switched to baz and only use SVN for $HOME/bin/) you can't really do the

Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-08-19 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Roland Mas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.08.19.2140 +0200]: The Berkeley DB storage backend was an enormously stupid thing, but that's been fixed (phew). My main gripe with Subversion now is that if I'm not mistaken (which I could very well be, since I've switched to baz and only use

Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-08-19 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.08.19.2146 +0200]: The list is somewhat outdated, and it doesn't reflect some things I've learnt since I wrote that pamphlet. If I find the time, I will contribute my comments to help get the page up to date. Feel free to prod me in a couple of

Re: arch, svn, cvs

2005-08-19 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Roland Mas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.08.19.2140 +0200]: The Berkeley DB storage backend was an enormously stupid thing, but that's been fixed (phew). My main gripe with Subversion now is that if I'm not mistaken (which I could very

OT: Re: arch, svn, cvs (was: Bug#323855: ITP: opencvs -- OpenBSD CVS implementation with special emphasis in security)

2005-08-19 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Daniel Stone wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 02:33:31PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.08.19.1422 +0200]: Compared to SVN from the view of somebody who is acquainted with CVS, arch sucks badly. I tend to agree with most of