Re: [lmi] Converting...to svn? [Was: Savannah status]

[Vadim Zeitlin]

On Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:10:24 +0000 Greg Chicares <address@hidden> wrote:

GC> Actually, would this be a good time to upgrade to a better version-control
GC> system? In the past, we discussed using svn; to paraphrase our private
GC> discussion of 2008-01-28T19:16Z:
GC>  - its interface is very similar to cvs's, so it'll be easy for us to
GC>      learn (BTW, we use no GUI for cvs, just the command line);
GC>  - lmi is a simple project with relatively few files and directories;
GC>  - we rarely use branches;
GC>  - svn allows renaming files (and we rename them often); and
GC>  - svn has a native http interface, which solves the problems we've
GC>      encountered when trying to use cvs pserver from behind a firewall.
GC> It just so happens that the MEC-testing work we've planned for June
GC> is mostly brand new and needn't be committed in pieces over time; and
GC> cvs.savannah.nongnu.org is out of commission for now; so all omens seem
GC> to augur well for converting now. What do you think?

 There is definitely no reason to keep using cvs if switching to svn is
possible. In addition to some advantages of svn mentioned above I'd also
like to remind probably the most important one: svn has a notion of
(atomic) revisions unlike cvs and this is so useful (or, rather, cvs is so
useless in this aspect) that this alone should justify switching to it.
Also, there are absolutely no redeeming features to cvs and it's not
developed any more since many years. And migrating to svn from cvs should
indeed be fairly easy (which is the reason I won't suggest migrating to hg
or bzr instead although if you're ready to consider these DVCSs I'd gladly
expand on why I think they could be a good idea).

 If you're interested I can convert my bzr LMI mirror into svn repository
(this will take a couple of hours to run to the completion probably). And
apparently Savannah admins can import the dump we provide to them, at least
according to http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg01192.html

 So just please let me know when/if you want me to create the repository
and put its dump online here.

 Thanks,
VZ