Re: Thoughts about migrating Mantis from CVS to Subversion

I use SVN at home and CVS at work, every day. I vastly prefer SVN and
recommend the migration.

- Nycto

On 10/29/07, David A. Desrosiers 
<desrod-PoZ5/QCWMfb/2OF+hy8yCA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 11:04 -0400, John Reese wrote:
> > I definitely think that Subversion is a marked improvement over the
> > use of CVS, but I agree with Gianluca that something like Git (my
> > personal favorite VCS), could be a much better fit.
>
> Be careful now... there's a handful of things that CVS does that
> Subversion does not (and cannot) do. It's not just a simple "If you use
> CVS, you should use Subversion" statement.
>
> One of our large projects simply cannot move to Subversion, because we
> require the ability to see which versions own specific files. You can't
> pull that information out of Subversion, because it simply doesn't
> exist.
>
> Git is another beast entirely, and again, is not a drop-in replacement
> for CVS or Subversion. If you have thousands of distributed committers,
> I agree, Git is a good choice.
>
> If however, you have a small handful of people with commit access
> (Victor, et al), and lots of _contributors_ who submit patches, then
> Subversion is fine.
>
> If you need more granular access to which versions of which files are
> being patched or having bugs reported against them (i.e. tracking and
> releasing multiple concurrent versions of the same project), then CVS is
> still the best approach.
>
>
> --
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