Seeking initial reactions: Moving setup from CVS to Subversion?

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Aug 19 23:00, Robert Collins wrote:
> I'm also not keen on this for several reasons:
> * subversion doesn't address the issues with merging & distribution that
> made it difficult for folk with long-running patches to stay in sync
> * subversion appears to be a very fragile system (I'm working with quite
> a few projects that involve subversion, and breakage is common).
> * plus of course, that the rest of the project has shown no interest (at
> this point) in moving.

That's a fairly good summary.  I also don't see a reason to move to
another sccs for this project.  Also keep in mind that you're adding
another burden to the overseers folks.  That's not worth it.


Corinna

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