Re: source control management for Octave

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* David Bateman <address@hidden> [2005-10-19 17:15]:

> John W. Eaton wrote:
>
> >Can someone please try to explain what the advantages will be for me
> >if we make the switch?
>
> To me, I believe the major advantage is atomic commits, [...]
>
> For me there is also the fact that svn can be made to work over http and 
> ssl and so I'll be able to access the repository from behind a firewall, 
> [...]

There two other advantages of svn over cvs that made me switch from the
later to the former: first, the capability of moving and deleting files
properly with histories being kept across moved and deleted files.
Second, svn does many of its operations locally (like add and diff) and
this yields an impressive gain in speed.

-- 
Rafael