A few comments, since your message makes it sound like everything is better, which is not true in reality.
> > - time to do a diff on mainline/branch > > "svn diff" is a disconnected operation, requires no server access, so it takes > milliseconds. "cvs diff" is dominated by network connection, so it can take a > while. Also "svn diff" can handle new and removed files, as you can easily do That's not true: most svn diff operations are network driven such as svn diff -rHEAD, -rrev, -rrev1:rev1, etc... as shown by my experiments and following answers. > > - space needed locally for mainline/branch > > Each working copy will take twice the space amount. It's actually more 3x the space, see figures already given (about 340 megs for cvs, and 950 for svn). > > - portability of svn to non-Linux systems > > This has been answered already. It should not be an issue. Note that I found it a real pain to have to install so much dependency package on my linux system, so I suspect building the whole dependency packages under non linux systems might be slghtly of a pain. And I am not done yet with the OpenSSH update which seems kind of madatory to do any practical work. So doing a full installation of the whole svn suite, plus OpenSSH 4.2, plus svk which many people have already suggested is I suspect a non trivial task on most non linux systems, even if these packages are portable. Arno
