Keith,
> Without sending me off to some link to read some 3rd party marketing
> speak about why I would want to upgrade to Subversion (not that you
> would do that to me of course), can you please highlight from your own
> experience what such features of SVN you are desperately seeking that
> are not currently provided with the normal CVS.
> In other words, what nice features of Subversion are going to propel you
> and other contributors such as myself into more productivity because of
> features available in SVN that are not available in CVS.
> I'm quite happy with CVS and my WinCVS client. I haven't found myself
> saying, gee it would be really great if CVS had this feature or if CVS
> had that feature it would make my life really easy and the last thing I
> want to go and do is be forced to switch to some SVN client when I have
> something that works well already.
> [...]
I don't think there is one such compelling feature that would urge to switch
Castor's repository. But there are many small improvements, that would
justify the change in the result:
- Subversion works over HTTP. This makes it much more "firewall friendly"
than CVS. I for example don't have access to CVS on work. But I can
use Subversion repositories through the HTTP proxy.
- It stores not only a HEAD version, but also the BASE version of the
source in the local working copy. This results in the two following
advantages.
- SVN makes use of two way deltifying. So only file changes are transmitted
over the net to reduce the bandwith usage.
- You can work partly offline because the repository is accessed less often
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