From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 16 21:06:00 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F060106566B; Sun, 16 Sep 2012 21:06:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tim@kientzle.com) Received: from monday.kientzle.com (99-115-135-74.uvs.sntcca.sbcglobal.net [99.115.135.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 519598FC0A; Sun, 16 Sep 2012 21:06:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: (from root@localhost) by monday.kientzle.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) id q8GL5qYY003129; Sun, 16 Sep 2012 21:05:52 GMT (envelope-from tim@kientzle.com) Received: from [192.168.2.143] (CiscoE3000 [192.168.1.65]) by kientzle.com with SMTP id ihvkif9jtpjitkn59ajvzwa2xe; Sun, 16 Sep 2012 21:05:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tim@kientzle.com) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1278) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Tim Kientzle In-Reply-To: <68E67617-A497-48FB-9B63-1AAC06BD60DA@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 14:05:52 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <90B6D589-3A2C-42E6-9017-C9D90A3EA8A5@kientzle.com> References: <20120916053523.GJ37286@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <51B48339-D1FA-49CD-B582-1C58855B024E@bsdimp.com> <68E67617-A497-48FB-9B63-1AAC06BD60DA@gmail.com> To: Garrett Cooper X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1278) Cc: Konstantin Belousov , Eitan Adler , Adrian Chadd , arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fallout from the CVS discussion 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: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 21:06:00 -0000 On Sep 16, 2012, at 1:53 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > 2. Subversion sometimes breaks between major/minor versions (1.6->1.7 = comes to mind) and is not backwards compatible in many cases (again, 1.6 = -> 1.7 transition). Yep. The working-copy compatibility issue is a pretty serious obstacle to including SVN in base. I generally like SVN a lot, but the WC format changes are real headaches when you have a bunch of tools that use different SVN libraries.=20 Tim