On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 23:03:03 -0400 (AST) "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Sailesh Krishnamurthy wrote: > > > Which brings me to another question .. has anybody considered using > > subversion instead of CVS ? > > Why? not that I'm for a chance from something that isn't broken, but > what advantages does subversion give us over what we already have? Subversion has lots of "little" benefits, but nothing that would be a major incentive to switch. The biggest benefits I can think of of the top of my head are: * Commits are actually atomic * protocol sends diffs in both directions which speeds up everything * branching and tagging are cheap constant time operations * the time it takes to make changes is based on the size of the change, not the size of the project * whole directories are versioned not just files. So for example if you for some reason wanted to rename src/backend/bootstrap.c to src/backend/bootup.c you wouldn't lose your revision history information. Same thing goes for complete reorganizations of the file layouts. * You can checkout "parts" of a project so if you need to fix a bug in 7.3.6's src/backend/ you only have to transfer that portion to you. * cvs diff ( well svn diff ) can be done offline. Same with 'status' which shows you your local modifications and 'revert' which reverts your changes back to your last checkout/update/etc. * Revisions numbers are repository wide instead of by file. You can refer to revision #14328 on hackers and everyone knows exactly what you are talking about and can switch their working copies to it easily ( svn switch -r 14328 ). It's sort of like having a tag for every commit made to the repository. It does have some downsides that I have found, most notibly that the size of your sources you have in your working copy are essentially doubled. There is a copy in your .svn directory that allows the offline status, diff, and revert commands to work. --------------------------------- Frank Wiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://frank.wiles.org --------------------------------- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly