Re: Subversion for DF sources

[Erik Wikström <erik-wikstrom@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2006-01-12 14:29, Erik Wikström wrote:
> On 2006-01-12 05:43, Nigel Weeks wrote:
> > A week or so ago, a discussion rattled around about cvsup being written in
> > c++.
> >
> > What about launching into it, and moving to subversion instead? That way,
> > the updater could be included in the base system, as it's c++ AND BSD
> > licenced.
> >
> > Probably great scads or work, but it might be a good idea.
>
> Hot sure that solves the problem, to my (limited) understanding the 
> problem is not with CVS per se (though there are problems with that too) 
> but rather with checking out the whole repository at once. Using normal 
> CVS this is not very efficient and CVSup is. The question then is how 
> efficient subversion is. (Someone who knows please confirm/deny.)

To correct myself: using cvsup you can get a copy of the repo and work 
against it localy, which you can't do with just cvs, don't know if you 
can get a local copy of the repo with subversion.

Erik Wikström
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