Re: SVN migration

From: Martin Sevior <msevior_at_physics.unimelb.edu.au>
Date: Thu Dec 22 2005 - 02:30:25 CET

On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 15:31 -0500, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> Hi,
>
> following and IRC discussion, I would like to bring back the subversion
> migration on the table.
>
> Why would we want to do that?
> -----------------------------
>
> Subversion address most concerns that CVS has like moving files, metadata,
> atomic commits.
> Subversion is easy to learn when you know CVS and has good support on every
> platforms.
> Subversion makes branches easy to manage.
>
> CVS -> SVN migration is fully supported and has been done on several occasion
> by several projects, including Vidoelan, KDE, etc.
>
> Do we need it ?
> ---------------
>
> Yes. We want to reorganize the tree and without losing history.... and I wish
> we would handle branches in a better way.
>
>
> Dom, Marc and I agree.
> Any comments?
>

Can someone comment on the availability of clients for Windows and OSX?

Can we put links from our website to good free clients for SVN for those
platforms?

Martin

> Hub
Received on Thu Dec 22 03:37:45 2005

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