[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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