Subversion? (Re: HEADS UP: Importing csup into base)

[Divacky Roman]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 11:29:21AM +0100, Ollivier Robert wrote:
> According to Divacky Roman:
> > I do agree that cvs has its drawbacks but there is OpenCVS (cvs
> > reimplementation by openbsd folks) which seems to be actively maintained and
> > its authors promised things like atomic commits etc.
> 
> When ?  Just having atomic commits is not enough.  If you take the HEAD of
> cvs right now (1.12.*), you get a "commit id" generated for all commits.
> 
> > I think that switch from gnu cvs to opencvs is painless and should be done
> > (once the opencvs is in usable state) because
> 
> VCS migration is too heavy to switch to just CVS+epsilon.

opencvs and gnucvs uses exactly the same data format so you can use either tool
to access the repo. so the switch is painless.. I think its similar to
switching from gnu tar to bsdtar..

roman