I'm new to subversion. What are its benefits over CVS?
David
On 17/04/07, Tim Jenness <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I'm toying with the idea of moving the non-java starlink code repository
> to subversion (hosted at the JAC). As a preliminary test I have run
> cvs2svn in dry-run mode:
>
> cvs2svn Statistics:
> ------------------
> Total CVS Files: 64491
> Total CVS Revisions: 203223
> Total Unique Tags: 979
> Total Unique Branches: 74
> CVS Repos Size in KB: 2107079
> Total SVN Commits: 27176
> First Revision Date: Fri Dec 8 05:31:29 1989
> Last Revision Date: Tue Apr 17 01:39:49 2007
>
> so subversion detected 27176 distinct commits out of more than 200,000 CVS
> commits.
>
> This is just a heads up in case the thought of moving to subversion will
> incite violence against me. (for the normal user the change to subversion
> will boil down to 'svn commit' and 'svn update' instead of 'cvs commit'
> and 'cvs update')
>
> --
> Tim Jenness
> JAC software
> http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj
>
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