Re: Moving wip to Subversion

[Geert Hendrickx <ghen%telenet.be@localhost>]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 09:31:50AM -0500, Johnny Lam wrote:
> My personal experience with working on pkgsrc leads me to believe that we
> want to reorganize things at times, and move files and directories around
> within the pkgsrc tree; however, we avoid it or use the cumbersome "cvs
> remove/add" process because CVS has no command to do such a move.  It
> would be nice to be able to get a continuous history of a file from its
> creation to the present.  This is at least something that moving to
> Subversion would help.
> 
> Given that, I think as long as pkgsrc itself is in CVS, pkgsrc-wip should
> follow suit so as to minimize differences in usage, and so that we don't
> need to install Subversion just to use pkgsrc-wip.

Seconded.  The only direct advantage of svn over cvs is the ability to
rename/move files and dirs, the rest is just fluff.  

Also, pkgsrc-wip is here for people to "learn" developing for pkgsrc.
Using cvs is an important part of that, which we would lose when converting
pksgrc-wip to svn.  

        Geert


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