On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
> --On Tuesday, November 04, 2003 23:16:50 +0000 Stephen Colebourne > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The one potential spanner in the works for me is subversion. When 99% of > > the world uses CVS, I really struggle with this one. > > Have you tried Subversion? It really eases a lot of pain that CVS causes. Can I use a Subversion server with an existing CVS client? Some kind of backwards compatibility bridge thing? > Renaming files is just so, gosh darn, beautiful; copying between projects > is painless and cheap. That said, if using Subversion is the *only* > bottleneck preventing a Jakarta Commons project from coming to the Apache > Commons, I'd be fine with them still using CVS if they were a pre-existing > project. Not only pre-existing projects on CVS though. If a new project is split off of an existing project, it's not going to want to go and use subversion. If developers from one of the CVS projects have a new idea, they're not going to want to go and make those new ideas be in a subversion project. Hen
