On Tue, 15 May 2007, Bart Oldeman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> would people here support a conversion of the FreeDOS CVS repository
> (kernel, freecom, install, mem) to Subversion (SVN)? One big plus is
> that CRLF problems would be mostly a thing of the past... what has
> happened a lot is that people check out CVS files on *nix, get LF line
> endings, correct them to CRLF, check them back in, people on Windows
> check them out, see CRCRLF nonsense line ending, correct them, check
> them back in, and the game continues. Or files in .zip files get the
> wrong line endings, etc. With Subversion, you can specify a CRLF line
> ending for all text files so these things won't happen. I've used
> Subversion for a while with DOSEMU and it works well.
>
> I must say (from private mail) that Eric would rather stay with CVS
> because of unfamiliarity with SVN and the fact that the working
> directories take up twice the space (ie. 4MB instead of 2 for the
> kernel for instance). The extra space comes from the caching of the
> repository contents locally, which has its advantages too because an
> "svn diff" or "svn revert" does not need to contact the server.
>
> Another thing that may annoy some is that there exists no SVN client
> for DOS. On the other hand, there exists no network aware CVS client
> either... so I don't think anyone has ever checked out CVS sources
> from SF on DOS. Thus this is more of a theoretical issue.
>
> What do others think? I'd be happy to do the conversion myself.
> Bart
I never really figured out cvs but I think I got the hang of svn pretty
well. If it would fix problems with the current system, without
introducing much of its own - and that seems to be the case from what
little I know of it - I say go for it (n/m that my initials are ALSO
"SVN")...
-uso.
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