[Scummvm-devel] Switch to SVN?

[Max Horn]

Am 10.05.2005 um 16:28 schrieb Philip Kendall:

> On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 04:52:01PM +0300, Eugene Sandulenko wrote:
>
> [ Subversion ]
>
> </lurk>
>
>> The questions are [ ... ] how safe will it be
>
> This would be my only worry. There have been "horror stories" with
> Subversion trashing its repository, sometimes in subtle ways that 
> aren't
> discovered until much later.

These horror stories are indeed just that: stories. People who have 
used development and alpha versions of SVN and then didn't properly 
follow the guidelines for updating from one dev version to another are 
typically the source of these urban legends.

> With CVS, everything in the repository was
> just a text file and this was (just about) fixable. With subversion,
> especially when using a Berkeley DB as the backend, you're stuck.

That's not the full truth either, with CVS you can get hosed, too, and 
a BDB can be recovered. Alas, we are talking about a fsfs backed SVN 
repos anyway, so your point is moot.


> This is apparently much improved in subversion 1.1, but I'd recommend
> somebody keeping an archive of old versions of the repository, just in
> case.

Repository archives should be regularly backuped with *any* version 
control system, be it SVN, CVS, or anything else...


Bye,

Max