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

[icepick at icepick.info]

On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 07:29:41AM -0400, Zooko wrote:
> I would be okay with Subversion.

As a sysadmin I'm *really* happy with subversion.  It's is easy to setup
without having to give people accounts on my machine.  You could actually do
this with cvs's pserver, but they havn't taken the afternoon it would take
to add a digest password scheme, so all passwords are in the clear.  With
SVN I just setup apache2's Digest Auth scheme.

> I would be happier with DARCS or arch.

DARCS looks intresting.  I can't tell from the docs

http://abridgegame.org/darcs/manual/node3.html#SECTION00330000000000000000

if you can commit changes via HTTP, or only via email.  Only via email is
bad if you outgoing mailserver takes forever to deliver messages.  You could
be waiting for your email to go thru while some conflicting patch gets
commited first.

> 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.

Why wouldn't you merge the branch, and then start another? branch-2.0 or
something?  Would that take care of the problem?

icepick


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