From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 6 16:59:28 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C1D016A423 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 16:59:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from canning.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE3F543D53 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 16:59:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from fw.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by canning.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B84A42A8F3 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 08:59:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from overcee.wemm.org (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by fw.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76A9DE2B3 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 08:59:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from overcee.wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.wemm.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k26GxPp5092755; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 08:59:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by overcee.wemm.org (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id k26GxPlW092754; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 08:59:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Authentication-Warning: overcee.wemm.org: peter set sender to peter@wemm.org using -f From: Peter Wemm To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 08:59:24 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <20060304141957.14716.qmail@web32705.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <200603051930.25957.peter@wemm.org> <20060306102622.GB21025@tara.freenix.org> In-Reply-To: <20060306102622.GB21025@tara.freenix.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200603060859.25216.peter@wemm.org> Cc: Subject: Re: Subversion? (Re: HEADS UP: Importing csup into base) X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:59:28 -0000 On Monday 06 March 2006 02:26 am, Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to Peter Wemm: > > Like perforce, it is fully client/server, but it has some > > considerable advantages over perforce: > > > > 1) It has fairly good detached operation modes. You can do logs, > > diffs, reverts, etc while detached. It does this by keeping > > metadata and a small number of revisions cached locally. > > In my opinion, it is not enough. You can't svn commit on a detached > mode. You can't work as if you were connected, commit several csets, > go back one and so on. That's too limiting. Sure, but I was thinking in terms of what we currently use. With cvs, you have no remote access. With cvs+cvsup and a copy of the repo, you can do diffs, reverts etc. No commits. p4 has the same limitation as regular remote cvs. The point was that compared to the baseline of cvs+cvsup, there would be no lost functionality with something like svn in that particular regard. -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5