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Subject: Re: [boost] [git] Mercurial?
From: Bjørn Roald (bjorn_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-03-22 17:37:47


On 03/22/2012 06:19 PM, Dave Abrahams wrote:
> on Wed Mar 21 2012, Edward Diener<eldiener-AT-tropicsoft.com> wrote:
>
>> On 3/21/2012 5:58 AM, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>>> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 4:45 AM, Edward Diener<eldiener_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 1) Creating a local SVN repository and importing some branches from another
>>>> SVN repository.
>>> Seriously?
>>> Have you ever done that? How well did it work?
>> It worked with no problems. Why should it have problems ?
> In fact, there are tools for this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVK
> Of course, that's a DVCS too :-)

SVK was nice in its time, but its maintenance was discontinued at some
point with a pretty clear announcement that it's time was in the past. I
think the developer saw no need for the tool any longer as simpler pure
DVCS had come along. These could even synch with SVN as well as SVK
could I think.

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Bjørn

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