On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Tim Jenness wrote:
> Thanks we clearly do need some form of change. But it has convinced me that
> at the very least I need to upgrade the existing svn repositories to v1.5 so
> that we can support real merging.
what drives the "need" here? The discussion on motivation I've seen so
far on this thread has mostly been of the form "project X is doing it so
why can't we?", though fast history access and, in this message, proper
merging have been mentioned (possibly I've missed talk on other lists).
I imagine that large projects such as Perl and emacs and GNOME have
much more need for the additional flexibility provided by a DVCS
than we do. I'm not trying to stop you making a change if that's
what you want or need to do, but I don't currently see what's motivating
it other than keeping abreast of the zeitgeist.
> Mark - are you using a v1.5 client yet? Would you mind upgrading if you
> don't? Sticking with subversion for starjava should be helped a little when
> merging is available properly. (Peter is using lots of branches on starlink
> repo at the moment so maybe he would want to switch to v1.5 of svn in the
> short term).
I'm using a 1.1 client but I can upgrade (if necessary? not sure whether
a 1.1. client can talk to a 1.5 server or not).
Mark
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