"troy d. straszheim" <troy@resophonic.com> writes:
David Abrahams wrote:
svk svk.elixus.org Beta. Adds distributed capabilities to subversion. It is the Rodney Dangerfield of version control systems: it doesn't get any respect. However, I don't see any obvious problems with it. My biggest concern is that it might not be widely adopted. Subversion seems to be the de-facto successor to CVS, and therefore I think it has a strong future. Secondary concern: it's written in Perl (only half-joking). Tertiary concern: only on release 0.29
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That said, it seems as though you can use svk on top of a centralized svn repository (arx too?) so maybe people can get this sort of functionality even if we adopt svn?
Yeah, that's the point. It's a wrapper that you can do local commits to. Personally I have no problem just keeping a mobile repository as well and doing my commits to the mother archive via "cp" from local checkout to mother checkout when I'm connected, but whatever, I guess there svk offers some slickness if you want to mess with it.
I'm not a "convert," and my experience with svn is limited. I'm still in the early phases of experience with it. SVN seems like the logical choice to me, but I'm open to considering others.
I have already done a couple of cvs->svn conversions for large projects. There is a bit of flexibility in how to do it... the offer stands to do some test runs and make the svn archives open, to play with. This way you can give the OSL guys a properly tweaked conversion script when you're ready, not just have the archive dumped through cvs2svn.
I never saw such an offer. If you're offering, for my part, I *think* I accept, and gratefully... but could you elaborate? I'm not sure I understand the specific details of what you're proposing.
wonder specifically if boost would be best set up with toplevel trunk/branches/tags, or if it would be best to do this somehow per-library
Probably a mix would be best. Release tags need to go at the top level, right?
, linked up with svn:externals.
Not familiar with that. Link?
Depends on what the CVS archive's tags/branches/etc look like, this has a lot to do with it when it comes to preserving this history information in the converted archive. I just need a tarball of CVS.
That's easy to get; meta-comm is posting it at http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/index.html -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com