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.
Actually, the things you mentioned are pretty "major", as most of the above are really broken/painful to do/very slow in CVS. But, all of those probably will not motivate a seasoned CVS user enough to migrate.
So one might ask, what *will* motivate a die-hard CVS user? A real-close Bitkeeper clone? :-)
-- dave
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