Re: Stable/Unstable and CVS

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Youness Alaoui wrote:
> I already worked with subversion and didn't see much of a difference
> (apart from 'snapshot' revisioning instead of file revisioning).. I did
> understand though from what people said, that it is better (tried it
> almost 3 years from now and it was a bit unstable at that point though..
> i'm sure it's better now).
> Since I don't see a huge difference in cvs/svn, I mean difference as in
> 'a month of training for all devels just to be able to use svn correctly
> without screwing up everything', I say go for it.
> Question is : SF gives svn support.. but is it official full support or
> was it "we're trying to get svn working, can people use it and see if we
> set it up correctly".. I wouldn't want them to be still trying to set it
> up and we end up with loosing all commits done on SVN... (are the 2
> synced or do we drop cvs completly when we switch to svn ?)

On GNA, we had to convert our cvs repository to a svn repository
(cvs2svn ... it works very well). It saves all the historic of the cvs
... no information is lost.

However, I think that when the conversion is done, there is now way to
synchronised both - except manually, obviously - and I don't think there
is a utility to convert from svn to cvs.

- From my experience, the most appreciative thing to the conversion from
cvs to svn we obtained was the capability to manage and to make the
arborescence of our respository evolve freely because svn do not have
the system of module present in cvs.

If you want an idea of a svn repository, you can take a look at :
http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/gasell/

For the commands :
 cvs update -> svn update
 cvs commit -> svn commit
 cvs status -> svn status (way more readable)
 cvs add    -> svn add
 cvs remove -> svn del
 cvs diff   -> svn diff (output is directly a patch)
... and mostly the same for the others.

For information on the migration :
 http://sam.zoy.org/writings/programming/svn2cvs.html
... and a comparison of both systems :
 http://www.pushok.com/soft_svn_vscvs.php

hop ... :)

GrdScarabe
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