Re: Switching to Subversion

[Juanma Barranquero]

On 11/12/06, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:

> IIRC, TeXlive switched to it from a proprietary version control
> system, and they experienced performance and/or bandwidth issues.

Performance issues could be related to having many files and so a big
working copy. Subversion 1.4.X includes a redesign of the WC's
metadata just to speed up these cases, so it'd be interesting to see
what release were they using.

We can always ask for a knowledgeable-if-not-totally-unbiased opinion
to Karl Fogel, who is (or was, a few months ago) reading this list :)

                   /L/e/k/t/u