Version Control

Thorsten Haude yoo at vranx.de
Wed Jan 2 17:25:45 CET 2008


Hi,

* Scott Tringali wrote (2008-01-02 11:08):
>Thorsten Haude wrote:
>
>>For NEdit however I'd keep to SourceForge and switch to Subversion.
>>It's a huge improvement over CVS. If we add some new policies on top
>>of that, branches might be fun.
>
>I don't personally mind moving over, as svn does seem to be a better 
>cvs.  It has some problems importing a huge CVS codebase while 
>preserving history, but I think nedit is small enough it would work OK.

Preserving history would be important, I agree.


>The main question is whether svn is *working* on non-Linux platforms so 
>that people who don't use a Linux are not stuck.

At work we use it regularly on Linux and Solaris (and Windows), I'm
not sure about the other boxes (AIX, Tru64 and I think HP-UX), but I
could check next week.


Thorsten
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