Re: Move to Subversion?

On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 09:41:42PM +1200, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Aug 2007, Erik Hovland wrote:
> > I don't have a problem with this. But with development being only a few
> > people, I don't see what makes cvs painful.
>
> The current number of developers is not significant - we're still talking
> centralised version control here.
>
> When you've worked with Subversion a lot (as I have) being forced to use CVS
> again is definitely painful. Subversion has local change tracking,
> repository-wide versioning, easy reverts, and transactioned commits. These
> are things that you come to rely on and miss very much when they arent there.
> Not to mention that it is faster as well.
>
> I'm suggesting the move because I think it makes development easier, and
> because the transition from CVS to Subversion is a fairly easy one - both in
> terms of usage and in converting the repository data.

What about another model all together, like git.

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