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> > svn is at least somewhat better than cvs. <BR> > <BR> > In http://gravityboy.livejournal.com/39755.html, gravityboy says <BR> > <BR> > : I'm really tired of people pushing the adoption of svn because it's a <BR> > : better CVS. The only people who that argument hasn't swayed are those <BR><BR>
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That's ambiguous to me.<BR>
He isn't clearly opposed to adopting svn over cvs, but svn over anything else.<BR>
It doesn't matter what I think, but I'm definitely not opposed to monotone.<BR>
Its marketing material reads among the best (seriously).<BR>
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I'm not volunteering to do any conversion, and I'm sure I (and others) will grumble no matter how painless switching clients is, but I'm pretty sure there are gains to be had and ignore at least my grumbling.<BR>
I really don't like the web interface to CVS in particular. It doesn't let me identify "change sets" and view their diffs, I have to root around to all the files. Tinderbox does address this, on the side. (You would have to be sure, whatever replacement/conversion, included a web interface, anonymous read-only access, Tinderbox-or-other interop, etc.; imho you don't have to deliver all at once.)<BR>
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The source control systems that use "databases", which I think monotone does, do they interact poorly with backup (in particular, whatever backup Elegosoft uses)? You know -- an incremental backup system that looks at file times/sizes would end up always copying the entire thing. Even so, "databases" can be a good thing..<BR>
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I understand that "two way migration" lets people keep using either system, but I'm not sure that's worthwhile. On the other hand, if "the new way" is read/write, and a "cvs mirror" is read only, except for some blessed mirroring server, that should be fairly easy and have some value. That can also be a way to ease the transition wrt anonymous read-only access, Tinderbox interop, etc.<BR>
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- Jay<BR>
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