[boost] Re: Moving from CVS to Subversion?

From: troy d. straszheim (troy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-02 15:24:27

David Abrahams wrote:
>>  svk           svk.elixus.org
>>  Beta.  Adds distributed capabilities to subversion.  It is the Rodney
>>  Dangerfield of version control systems: it doesn't get any respect.
>>  However, I don't see any obvious problems with it.
> 
> 
> My biggest concern is that it might not be widely adopted.  Subversion
> seems to be the de-facto successor to CVS, and therefore I think it
> has a strong future.  Secondary concern: it's written in Perl (only
> half-joking).  Tertiary concern: only on release 0.29

...

> That said, it seems as though you can use svk on top of a centralized
> svn repository (arx too?) so maybe people can get this sort of
> functionality even if we adopt svn?

Yeah, that's the point.  It's a wrapper that you can do local commits 
to.  Personally I have no problem just keeping a mobile repository as 
well and doing my commits to the mother archive via "cp" from local 
checkout to mother checkout when I'm connected, but whatever, I guess 
there svk offers some slickness if you want to mess with it.

> 
> I'm not a "convert," and my experience with svn is limited. I'm still
> in the early phases of experience with it. SVN seems like the logical
> choice to me, but I'm open to considering others.
> 

I have already done a couple of cvs->svn conversions for large projects. 
  There is a bit of flexibility in how to do it...  the offer stands to 
do some test runs and make the svn archives open, to play with.  This 
way you can give the OSL guys a properly tweaked conversion script when 
you're ready, not just have the archive dumped through cvs2svn.   I 
wonder specifically if boost would be best set up with toplevel 
trunk/branches/tags, or if it would be best to do this somehow 
per-library, linked up with svn:externals.  Depends on what the CVS 
archive's tags/branches/etc look like, this has a lot to do with it when 
it comes to preserving this history information in the converted 
archive.  I just need a tarball of CVS.

-t