[Scummvm-devel] Subversion is here!
Jonathan Gray
jsg at goblin.cx
Thu Jan 12 15:07:01 CET 2006
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 12:00:36AM +0100, Max Horn wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> the SF.net Subversion beta program started today. As you may already
> know, I managed to get us onto the pariticipant list.
>
> So we can start using Subversion now if we want to ! I only have to
> enable it. For details on the server, check out <https://
> sourceforge.net/docs/E09>
>
> However, I recommend not to rush this, to avoid trouble / confusion.
> My suggestion is that, unless there are general objections to the
> whole switch, we switch during the coming weekend (or later, if we
> determine there are problems with this). SF.net allows us to
> automatically migrate our existing CVS repository to Subversion (note
> that the CVS repos will always stay there). This can take a couple
> hours, considering the size of our CVS repos... The plan would be to
> not let people commit in that time, and then we all start using
> Subversion at the same time.
>
> They also provide various default hook scripts (for validating MIME
> types -- think "binary flag for pictures"; for commit mails; etc.).
>
> Furthermore, we may want to setup something like svn2cvs (http://
> svn2cvs.tigris.org/) to keep our anon CVS archive up-to-date;
> although I'd prefer not to do that and instead tell our users to use
> anon Subversion access instead.
>
>
> What do you think, folks?
I fail to see a single reason for changing mentioned in this mail.
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