From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 8 21:47:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5B6216A4CE for ; Wed, 8 Dec 2004 21:47:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from delight.idiom.com (delight.idiom.com [216.240.32.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B82E43D3F for ; Wed, 8 Dec 2004 21:47:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1103406453.4bfc29@mired.org) Received: from idiom.com (idiom.com [216.240.32.1]) by delight.idiom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C09DD1C53F7 for ; Wed, 8 Dec 2004 13:47:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (mwm@idiom [216.240.32.1]) by idiom.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id iB8LlX4Q084055 for ; Wed, 8 Dec 2004 13:47:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1103406453.4bfc29@mired.org) Received: (qmail 97646 invoked by uid 100); 8 Dec 2004 21:47:33 -0000 Received: by guru.mired.org (tmda-sendmail, from uid 100); Wed, 08 Dec 2004 15:47:29 -0600 (CST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16823.30320.849399.610561@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 15:47:28 -0600 To: Jordan Hubbard In-Reply-To: <6E40E93D-489C-11D9-A254-000393DACFAC@brierdr.com> References: <20041207205827.64995395.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> <20041207220412.GA33656@xor.obsecurity.org> <6E40E93D-489C-11D9-A254-000393DACFAC@brierdr.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-Primary-Address: mwm@mired.org X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.0.3 (Seattle Slew) From: Mike Meyer X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 13:10:06 +0000 cc: hackers@freebsd.org cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: OpenCVS X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 21:47:35 -0000 In <6E40E93D-489C-11D9-A254-000393DACFAC@brierdr.com>, Jordan Hubbard typed: > One might also ask the begged question, namely whether or not it makes > any sense to invest time and effort into a transition to just another > implementation of cvs vs investing it in moving to something else, like > SVN. No, I'm really not trying to re-ignite the "should we move to > p4/svn/arch/...?" war, I'm simply saying it might be best to decide > here and now that should any SCM transition ever occur, it should only > be when the bang-for-buck factor reaches some significant threshold > over what's currently available now. The interesting question is how much of a cvs clone is OpenCVS? If it will work with existing repositories, then there isn't any transition required - just plug in the software. But finding that out will require waiting until there is a release of OpenCVS. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.