Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: using DVCS

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 09:32:55PM +0200, Gour wrote:

> Karsten> I have considered that but the decision was to wait until
> Karsten> Savannah supports something better than CVS and which is in
> Karsten> wide use. Say, subversion.
> 
> Subversion?
> 
> This is (almost) the same thing as CVS - same centralized paradigm. :-(

Oh, OK, you were going for *de*centralized VCS. I didn't
realize that. Actually, you are right. IF we switch we might
as well think about switching to something that supports
distributed work better. However, switching to subversion
might be a sensible first step because it has a lot of other
advantages over CVS.

BTW, why not use GIT ;-)

> Karsten> Does savannah offer subversion ?
> 
> I think so, but I do not think it offers significant improvement to
> switch from CVS to SVN, at least in terms to make contributing more
> easy.
Oh, it offers a lot, like sanely renaming files or deleting
directories ... :-)

I tend to think that as long as the developer base is rather
small it'd be sufficient to use a centralized VCS -- but a
better quality one than CVS.

Karsten
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