Re: Subversion for DF sources

2006-01-12 Thread Csaba Henk
On 2006-01-12, Erik Wikström [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd say that if there is a move then it will be to a decentralized VCS and with some luck it will include an efficient checkout in the package. Hm, I went for Mercurial and I'll never look back (the same regards to the Linux kernel tree on

Re: Subversion for DF sources

2006-01-12 Thread Erik Wikström
On 2006-01-12 14:29, Erik Wikström wrote: On 2006-01-12 05:43, Nigel Weeks wrote: A week or so ago, a discussion rattled around about cvsup being written in c++. What about launching into it, and moving to subversion instead? That way, the updater could be included in the base system, as it's

Re: Subversion for DF sources

2006-01-12 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 3:43 PM +1100 1/12/06, Nigel Weeks wrote: A week or so ago, a discussion rattled around about cvsup being written in c++. Some comments on this part of your message: FreeBSD already has a side project to rewrite cvsup in C (plain C, not C++). Right now this is not a full featured

Re: Subversion for DF sources

2006-01-12 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Csaba Henk wrote: So I'd appreciate if you could dig up the exact link, but if you can't... this very thread made me aware of the fact that with cvsup I can get the revision history (RCS files), so there is nothing to keep me away from setting up a hg mirror for FBSD like you do for Dfly apart

Subversion for DF sources

2006-01-11 Thread Nigel Weeks
A week or so ago, a discussion rattled around about cvsup being written in c++. What about launching into it, and moving to subversion instead? That way, the updater could be included in the base system, as it's c++ AND BSD licenced. Probably great scads or work, but it might be a good idea. N.