[Babase] Revision control -- switching babase from cvs to arch

Susan Alberts babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:56:38 +0300


OK this sounds good. I remember the discussions about cvs versus 
subversion and am glad that you have an alternative you are happy 
with. I assume you don't need any other input from me.

Susan

>One of these days before we go live I'm going to switch
>program source code revision systems.  Cvs is ancient
>and something of a pain, although standard.  The
>drop-in replacement for cvs is subversion, but it
>is somewhat heavy-handed in terms of what sort of software
>must be present on the system for it to run.  It would
>require that Hunter be involved, webservers are necessary,
>etc.  Overall, I don't think that subversion's command-line
>compatability with cvs is worth it.  GNU arch is up-and-coming
>and uses a completely different change management model
>from cvs, which avoids the design flaws of cvs, and
>is easy for me to install sans Hunter.  Arch is building a substantial
>user base and is not going away.  It runs on all sorts
>of Unix, including Mac OS X, and there are apparently versions
>that run on MS Windows but I don't believe the Windows version
>is full featured at this time.
>
>I chose CVS initially because Tyler wanted to go that way
>and because ARCH may not have yet reached 1.0 back then.
>Now it's at 1.2.  Looks like there's a program (cscvs)
>that will import cvs history into arch, so if it's easy
>I'll do that.  Otherwise I'll just keep the old cvs
>stuff around and start the arch change history whenever
>I get around to switching over.  Switching is just a matter
>of starting to use arch instead of cvs.
>
>http://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-arch/
>
>Karl <kop@meme.com>
>Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
>                  -- Robert A. Heinlein
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