Re: Subversion package for debian
On Thursday 25 November 2004 02:08, Micha Feigin wrote: At Wed, 24 Nov 2004 16:08:00 +0100, Both cvs and subversion can handle binary files, although not very efficiently (although subversion claims so, I don't completely believe it). Its a problem to coherently store differences between such files where you don't understand the contents and thus can't make smart diffs, or where large parts of the file change to handle small changes. If the files don't change too much its still ok to use cvs or subversion (its mainly useful for handling bitmaps as part of program code). I am running a subversion svnserve process on my work laptop, a win2000 machine. As a client I have tortoise svn. I then use subversion to manage version control on my m$ word documents. It was the binary diff ability that made me decide to do it that way rather than just keep lots of versions of the document file around. -- Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. --Gandhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Subversion package for debian
Thankyou so much Thomas, Alexander,Micha,Mathias,Jon,Alan for your response. Meanwhile form the Subversion site. http://subversion.tigris.org/project_packages.html I got the following link http://people.debian.org/~adconrad/ to install for Debian, Has anyone installed from this paackage. And also what are the configurations that I should make after installing the Package ? Thankyou all so much for the response :) Good Luck Kind Regards Siju -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subversion package for debian
Hi all, http://packages.debian.org/experimental/source/subversion says that the subversion package is experimental and not stable. Does anyone know any third party site (like dotdeb) that provides 3rd party stable packages for subversion. Also can I hear from people who have used Subversion on Debian whether it is advisable to switch from CVS to Subversion in Debian and if there are problems assosiated with it? Thankyou so much Good luck to all Kind Regards Siju -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Subversion package for debian
Siju George wrote: Hi all, http://packages.debian.org/experimental/source/subversion says that the subversion package is experimental and not stable. Does anyone know any third party site (like dotdeb) that provides 3rd party stable packages for subversion. Also can I hear from people who have used Subversion on Debian whether it is advisable to switch from CVS to Subversion in Debian and if there are problems assosiated with it? I switched to servers from CVS to SVN without any problem. Thankyou so much Good luck to all Kind Regards Siju Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Subversion package for debian
* Siju George [EMAIL PROTECTED] [041124 10:38]: http://packages.debian.org/experimental/source/subversion says that the subversion package is experimental and not stable. No, it tells you, that there exists subversion packages in the experimental branch of Debian. Does anyone know any third party site (like dotdeb) that provides 3rd party stable packages for subversion. http://www.backports.org/package.php?search=subversion Yours sincerely, Alexander signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Subversion package for debian
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Siju George wrote: Hi all, http://packages.debian.org/experimental/source/subversion says that the subversion package is experimental and not stable. You are looking at the version in experimental so of course its labled as experimental ;-) On the other hand, the version in unstable is the stable version of subversion. I believe that also the version in experimental is considered stable. There was an email from the maintainer some time ago that the latest version is not propagating the unstable at the moment (and thus testing) due to the freeze process of testing, and since there are a few dependencies it would require compilation and testing of some other packages, so its held back untill the freeze (or possibly untill the freeze will prove to take too long, whichever comes first). You should be safe with both the version in unstable and experimental in this specific case (unrelated to this, I use a few packages from experimental and didn't run into trouble yet). If you are looking for packages for woody, look in backports.org there is a version for i386 woody, and I also found a version for powerpc woody under apt-get.org. Does anyone know any third party site (like dotdeb) that provides 3rd party stable packages for subversion. Also can I hear from people who have used Subversion on Debian whether it is advisable to switch from CVS to Subversion in Debian and if there are problems assosiated with it? Thankyou so much Good luck to all Kind Regards Siju -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Subversion package for debian
Hi, http://packages.debian.org/experimental/source/subversion says that the subversion package is experimental and not stable. Does anyone know any third party site (like dotdeb) that provides 3rd party stable packages for subversion. Also can I hear from people who have used Subversion on Debian whether it is advisable to switch from CVS to Subversion in Debian and if there are problems assosiated with it? I'm searching for an OpenSource DMS (document management system) and heard about subversion. I just want to ask, if somebody is experienced with this? The features of subversion seem to be great, but I don't know if it makes sense to use this for managing office and binary files. Greetings Mathias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Subversion package for debian
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 16:08:00 +0100, Mathias Tauber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, http://packages.debian.org/experimental/source/subversion says that the subversion package is experimental and not stable. Does anyone know any third party site (like dotdeb) that provides 3rd party stable packages for subversion. Also can I hear from people who have used Subversion on Debian whether it is advisable to switch from CVS to Subversion in Debian and if there are problems assosiated with it? I'm searching for an OpenSource DMS (document management system) and heard about subversion. I just want to ask, if somebody is experienced with this? The features of subversion seem to be great, but I don't know if it makes sense to use this for managing office and binary files. Unless I'm mistaken, no generic DMS (or VMS) can sensibly support a diff operation for binary files (i.e., displaying differences to the user), with the exception of user-configured diff for specific file formats I suppose. The only thing I can think of then that would be a disadvantage for predominantly binary files would be the efficiency of the diffing algorithm. Subversion uses a binary difference algorithm which should be perfectly fine for your needs: Efficient handling of binary files Subversion is equally efficient on binary as on text files, because it uses a binary diffing algorithm to transmit and store successive revisions. (subversion.tigris.org) Is there some other functionality you think would be impaired for binary files? I'd also consider what development model you are to be employing for your files. You may decide that monotone, arch or darcs may be more useful. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Subversion package for debian
At Wed, 24 Nov 2004 16:08:00 +0100, Mathias Tauber wrote: Hi, http://packages.debian.org/experimental/source/subversion says that the subversion package is experimental and not stable. Does anyone know any third party site (like dotdeb) that provides 3rd party stable packages for subversion. Also can I hear from people who have used Subversion on Debian whether it is advisable to switch from CVS to Subversion in Debian and if there are problems assosiated with it? I'm searching for an OpenSource DMS (document management system) and heard about subversion. I just want to ask, if somebody is experienced with this? The features of subversion seem to be great, but I don't know if it makes sense to use this for managing office and binary files. Both cvs and subversion can handle binary files, although not very efficiently (although subversion claims so, I don't completely believe it). Its a problem to coherently store differences between such files where you don't understand the contents and thus can't make smart diffs, or where large parts of the file change to handle small changes. If the files don't change too much its still ok to use cvs or subversion (its mainly useful for handling bitmaps as part of program code). Greetings Mathias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] +++ This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System at the Tel-Aviv University CC. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
