[Bf-committers] Subversion <-> CVS

Jasper Mine bf-committers@blender.org
Thu, 6 May 2004 16:34:56 -0400


Please stay with CVS :)

On May 6, 2004, at 8:34 AM, <michel.s@home.nl> wrote:

>> Hi,
>>
>> Stefan Arentz, the person who's upgrading the GForge version for our
>> projects site, likes to know if we don't want to switch to Subversion
>> instead.
>>
>> Now, before all techie wizzkids here start jumping on the topic, I'd
>> like to see a couple of things sorted out, especially to prevent
>> adopting a system that's not supported well.
>>
>> - can anyone simply tell me what - for our daily coding practice -
>> Subversion would offer extra?
>
> The most important reasons for me to switch over to Subversion would 
> be:
> - version history on directories
> - renaming of files
> - moving files (now this is possible with some ugly cvs surgery which 
> only a cvs admin can do if I'm correct).
>
> The above 3 items would've been useful in the past in a couple of 
> situations and I'm sure it will be useful in the future.
>
> Another important feature Subversion has is atomic commits. This means 
> that if a connection at some point during a commit action is broken, 
> the entire commit will not come through in the repository; the 
> repository will remain consistent.
>
> With regards,
> Michel
>
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