From maintainers-request at octave dot org Wed Nov 2 08:30:36 2005 Subject: Re: source control management for Octave From: David Bateman To: "John W. Eaton" Cc: Paul Kienzle , Stefan van der Walt , Andy Adler , octave maintainers mailing list Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 15:26:38 +0100 John W. Eaton wrote: >On 2-Nov-2005, Paul Kienzle wrote: > >| I'm fine with subversion so long as there are other major projects that >| have been using it for a while and are happy. > >| I notice that R is using it, and after a bit of apt magic to get >| subversion on my system I could download the latest revision. > >The gcc project also recently switched to svn from cvs. > >I think the big advantage for me would be the ability to move files >around without losing history. > >Currently, I use rsync to copy the contents of the real cvs archive to >www.octave.org, where it is accessible to the world in a read-only >mode. I think I might prefer to continue doing that, even if >subversion allows other ways to handle read-only public access (it >makes me a bit nervous to make the real archive public, even if there >it is supposed to be safe). 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? > >Thanks, > >jwe > > > I'm not that experienced with SVN, but I thought that it allowed distributed management in that a checked-out tree could be used directly to create another tree that might be considered the ROOT for someone else. If that is the case, can't a simple checkout/update be used to replace the rsync.. Sorry I'm not to clear on the details, I've never tried this... Regards David -- David Bateman David dot Bateman at motorola dot com Motorola Labs - Paris +33 1 69 35 48 04 (Ph) Parc Les Algorithmes, Commune de St Aubin +33 1 69 35 77 01 (Fax) 91193 Gif-Sur-Yvette FRANCE The information contained in this communication has been classified as: [x] General Business Information [ ] Motorola Internal Use Only [ ] Motorola Confidential Proprietary