Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: SCMS question

On Monday 26 February 2007 13:50, Robert Treat wrote:
> It's worth keeping in mind that one of the primary reasons we don't have a
> different usage pattern is because CVS makes such a thing painful.  Given
> how much of development is done now, I have a feeling that the community
> might well adopt a distributed development model and strongly benefit from
> it given a tool that makes it manageable, but CVS will certainly never give
> us that.

Well stated.

> > We have the opportunity to
> > wait and see what will emerge in the SCMS competition, and IMHO that's
> > what we should do.  There are many more-pressing things for us to spend
> > time on right now than an SCMS conversion.
>
> 100% Agreed.

I think SVN may provide a nicer migration path to the distributed SCMS simply
because it supports the atomic changesets. At the very least, it could be a
much shorter process than what the current conversion takes (about 3.25 hours
on my laptop). Here's ([1]) another interesting bit.

[1]http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/SVNMigration

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