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From: Christian Parpart <trapni@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 36: providing both CVS and Subversion?
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 20:23:43
Message-Id: 200504112223.32908.trapni@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 36: providing both CVS and Subversion? by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Monday 11 April 2005 8:26 am, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 23:57:12 +0200 Christian Parpart <trapni@g.o>
3 >
4 > wrote:
5 > | > SVN uses transactions and
6 > | > changesets. These make a heck of a lot more sense if they're done on
7 > | > a per project basis.
8 > |
9 > | reason?
10 >
11 > Because you can pull out a meaningful and relevant changeset without
12 > having to arse around with path prefixes.
13
14 Do you have to? If so, why?
15
16 > | > Unlike with CVS, this makes a big difference -- SVN
17 > | > revision IDs are actually meaningful,
18 > |
19 > | SVN repository IDs represent the state of the whole repository at a
20 > | given time, nothing more or less.
21 >
22 > Not repo IDs. Revision IDs.
23
24 That's the one I meant. yeah.
25
26 > | Hmm... besides, the ASF is just having a single repository for all
27 > | their public projects (with about 1000+ contributors) w/o any
28 > | problems.
29 >
30 > So we should make the same mistakes as them? Sure, a single repo would
31 > be usable, but multiple repos would be a heck of a lot better.
32
33 Seriousely, this is plain low FUD unless you can give me a decent argument on
34 why the ASF made a mistake here.
35
36 --
37 Netiquette: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt
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Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 36: providing both CVS and Subversion? Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>