[wplug-erie] Repository storage (CVS, Subversion)

[Just Bill]

OMG, 

activity on Erie Lug....... I"m gonna blow ......... booooommm......

Just had to get involved even theough I know nothing about the topic.

Just Bill

On 6/7/05, Grey <grey at net.arrivetech.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 05:06:48PM -0000, Mark Dalrymple wrote:
> > I use subversion exclusively now (from using CVS a lot).  Conceptually
> > it's not too different, and has some nice features.  one thing that came
> > up at WPLUG is someone who really wanted to have the X.Y.Z.A numbering
> > scheme for revisions (vs Subversion's monotonically increasing integer).
> 
> I've never had a reason to branch in CVS with the code I work with which
> is mostly programming (Tcl/Tk, C, C++, Perl, PIC Assembly), sometimes
> config logs (if I remember), and within the last year, nagios and bind
> data. Also, some of that reason is that I never can get the branch to
> merge the way I want, so I avoid it.
> 
> My release tags usually have my number standard in, so the Subversion
> number system doesn't bother me.
> 
> I think my biggest problem with CVS is directory management, and
> symbolic links. I've read that Subversion may help in the directory
> situation, and I've skimmed too lightly on the symbolic link
> management:
> 
>  ~/system/nameserver/ns1/
>         ./conf
>         ./data
>         ./scripts -> ../common/scripts
>  ~/system/nameserver/ns2/
>         ./conf
>         ./data
>         ./scripts -> ../common/scripts
>  ~/system/nameserver/common
>         ./scripts
> 
> I admit, I could write a script in the cvsroot files to do some of this,
> but it's one of those things I don't get the chance to do (8th day
> projects)
> 
> Still, it's good to know the differences, thanks Mark.
> If you hadn't have mentioned FSFS I would have gone the Berkeley DB route due
> to the mention of maturity of FSFS.
> 
> -Grey
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