Where is FreeBSD going?

[Sean Farley]

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Doug Rabson wrote:

> I've been re-evaluating the current subversion over the last couple of
> weeks and its holding up pretty well so far. It still misses the
> repeated merge thing that p4 does so well but in practice, merging
> does seem to be a lot easier than with CVS due to the repository-wide
> revision numbering system - that makes it easy to remember when your
> last merge happened so that you don't merge a change twice.
>
> The three main showstoppers for moving FreeBSD to subversion would be:
>
> 1. A replacement for cvsup. Probably quite doable using svnadmin dump
>    and load.
> 2. Support for $FreeBSD$ - user-specified keywords are not supported
>    and won't be until after svn-1.0 by the looks of things.
> 3. Converting the repository. This is a tricky one - I tried the
>    current version of the migration scripts and they barfed and died
>    pretty quickly. Still, I'm pretty sure that the svn developers are
>    planning to fix most of those problems. From mailing-list archives,
>    it appears that they are using our cvs tree as test material for
>    the migration scripts.

I admit to having not tried it, but I wonder how well OpenCM
(http://www.opencm.org/) would compare.  I think it would have a smaller
footprint than Subversion.

Sean
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