Re: [Firebird-devel] Conversion of CVS to Subversion

2012-07-15 Thread Roman Rokytskyy
Am 15. Juli 2012 18:23:55 schrieb Mark Rotteveel > > I do know that Roman was already planning to migrate to Subversion > before I joined, so maybe he has additional reasons. Reasons were: - same VCS for Firebird (core project uses SVN, some others do as well); - should be supported by SF.net an

Re: [Firebird-devel] Conversion of CVS to Subversion

2012-07-15 Thread Dimitry Sibiryakov
15.07.2012 18:57, Mark Rotteveel wrote: > The > advantage in Subversion is that client -> server also sends diffs where > CVS sends the full file from client to server. Unfortunately, it does not send diffs when comparing two non-current versions. Instead it sends two full files and do compar

Re: [Firebird-devel] Conversion of CVS to Subversion

2012-07-15 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On 15-7-2012 16:51, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote: > 15.07.2012 15:11, Paul Reeves wrote: >> I've found subversion to be way quicker to checkout > > It is strange because SVN usually doesn't use compression during network > transfer in > contrast to CVS. Of course, if you have 100mb network, it doe

Re: [Firebird-devel] Conversion of CVS to Subversion

2012-07-15 Thread Lester Caine
Paul Reeves wrote: > Overall I haven't yet found a compelling need to move my local code from cvs, > but if I did I think I would look at git before svn. Interesting that you > prefer hg over git. Maybe I should have a look at that someday. Actually it's a little academic ... I prefer TortoiseHg a

Re: [Firebird-devel] Conversion of CVS to Subversion

2012-07-15 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On 15-7-2012 13:30, Lester Caine wrote: > Mark Rotteveel wrote: >> I don't want to make this a source control beauty contest:). > > DO you actually NEED to migrate from CVS? Dimitry did ask, and to be honest, > in > the absence of a better option on the DVCS front, staying with CVS is just as > va

Re: [Firebird-devel] Conversion of CVS to Subversion

2012-07-15 Thread Dimitry Sibiryakov
15.07.2012 15:11, Paul Reeves wrote: > I've found subversion to be way quicker to checkout It is strange because SVN usually doesn't use compression during network transfer in contrast to CVS. Of course, if you have 100mb network, it doesn't matter... -- WBR, SD. -

Re: [Firebird-devel] Conversion of CVS to Subversion

2012-07-15 Thread Paul Reeves
On Sunday 15 Jul 2012 12:30:23 Lester Caine wrote: > > Will Subversion actually add anything other than wasting time and requiring > people to rewrok their end of things. > Rewrok? We should add that as a new word in the language - To spend time fixing things that worked fine before. :-) Anyw

Re: [Firebird-devel] Conversion of CVS to Subversion

2012-07-15 Thread Lester Caine
Mark Rotteveel wrote: > I don't want to make this a source control beauty contest:). DO you actually NEED to migrate from CVS? Dimitry did ask, and to be honest, in the absence of a better option on the DVCS front, staying with CVS is just as valid a choice these days. Will Subversion actually a

Re: [Firebird-devel] Conversion of CVS to Subversion

2012-07-15 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On 15-7-2012 6:53, marius adrian popa wrote: > I can help you to migrate it to git i did a few years ago some scripts , > svn is against my principles : complex and slow > http://mapopa.blogspot.ro/2009/12/found-bug-in-git-cvsimport-so-i-will.html I don't want to make this a source control beauty