Re: About the devel "branch"

[Sven Luther]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 02:31:04AM +0200, K.G. wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 01:19:48 +0200
> Sven Luther <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 06:56:44PM +0200, K.G. wrote:
> > > Hi everybody,
> > > 
> > > The devel branch is now totally out of sync with the recent progress
> > > made in stable, and just correspond to an old stable version.
> > > 
> > > Maybe we could just drop it and use a real CVS branch instead ?
> > > That would allow us to apply patches from stable to devel, and in the
> > > meantime to start some more deeper modifications if we want to.
> > 
> > What about moving to subversion or some other more modern revision control
> > system ?
> 
> Yeah subversion looks really cool (I just read the manual today :)
> 
> Which are the other modern revision control systems ?

arch, bazzar, darcs, git , not sure if they are other.

We already have a subversion repo on aliot though, which i use for the debian
packaging of parted, and migration can be instantaneous, and i believe the ue
of subversion over the other solution is much less barrier to entry than the
other systems.

Friendly,

Sven Luther