On 21 Aug 2008, at 16:46, Curtis Olson wrote: > I was able to find a set of options to the cvs2svn tool that worked > for our repository. The FlightGear repository takes about an hour > and 45 minutes to convert. So that part works well.
Yep, that's really great news - I have heard some horror stories from the early days of SVN, but it seems to be a straightforward process these days > I also really like how svn handles group and user > authentication ... it does it outside of the unix account system > which makes the system much easier to manage. But I am headed out > of town here in a few minutes so I didn't want to rush to set up a > server daemon and then overlook something from a security standpoint. Can't comment much there - I've used the HTTPS interface, where authentication was done by Apache, but of course there's multiple Apach mod_auth_ solutions. > From the standpoint of taking small steps, I think it makes sense to > migrate towards svn, and then we can still keep the git discussion > open as a separate issue. Yep, absolutely, especially since I am very unsure how git deals with binary files, and the Windows situation seems 'complicated'. James ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
