Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Why we might use subversion instead of arch.

[Pierce T . Wetter III]

> > > From: "Pierce T. Wetter III" <address@hidden>
> >
> > >    So we're still in the "CVS sucks, but does it suck
> enough to be worth
> > > switching" state.
> >
> > >    Hence the "might use subversion" above. We might just
> stick with CVS
> > > until tla 1.4 :-)
> >
> > Don't switch, then.  Stick to CVS.  From my perspective: Subversion
> > will increase your costs far more than it reduces them.
>
> I'll repeat myself here:
>
> I really wanted to like subversion.  But after awhile, I couldn't
> help but conclude that it was a slower, incomplete, oft-broken
> CVS with multiple unstable dependencies.

  Yeah, CVS is pretty good in a lot of ways, and since I'm not really 
sure I like the branching/merging in SVN, that leaves changesets and 
better directory handling as the only SVN features over CVS, but there 
are some disadvantages in turn.

 Pierce