From maintainers-request at octave dot org Wed Nov  2 08:08:41 2005
Subject: Re: source control management for Octave
From: Stefan van der Walt <stefan at sun dot ac dot za>
To: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Cc: Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at users dot sourceforge dot net>,         Andy Adler <adler@site.uottawa.ca>,         octave maintainers mailing list <maintainers@octave.org>
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 16:06:35 +0200

On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 07:40:57AM -0500, John W. Eaton wrote:
> Does anyone have experience doing this?  After looking at svn
> briefly last week, I also thought it would be best to use the fsfs
> filesystem instead of the Berkeley database.  Is that the right
> thing to do?

FSFS is definately the way to go if you want to rsync the repository,
since it does not require write access for read operations (unlike
Berkeley DB).

Regards
Stéfan