[mnet-devel] Moving sf.net CVS to cryptomonkey.net Subversion

[Zooko]

I would be okay with Subversion.

I would be happier with DARCS or arch.

Subversion is the only "CVS successor" listed in [1] that *doesn't* solve the 
biggest problem with CVS: that when you merge branch A onto HEAD, then make 
more changes on branch A, and then merge it onto HEAD again, it tries to merge 
all the parts of branch A that it *already* merged, causing all sorts of 
spurious changes and unnecessary merge conflicts.

That problem is easy to solve, and every one of the tools solves it other 
than CVS and Subversion.  The revision control system just remembers for you 
which part of branch A has already been merged, and don't attempt to re-merge 
that part.  Just merge the *new* parts of branch A!

Since maintaining HEAD branch was one of the critical issues that cause the 
recent crisis, I am very interested in a revision control system that offers 
more convenient merging.

Regards,

Zooko

http://zooko.com/

[1] http://zooko.com/revision_control_quick_ref.html



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