[linux-dvb] Re: wiki?

[Johannes Stezenbach <js@convergence.de>]

Waechtler wrote:
> Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> >Well, CVS works fine for me - I see no actual need to change that.
> >I have to admit, though, that I have no personal experience with
> >subversion. I just wouldn't change something unless that has _real_
> >advantages. The fact that (according to Wolfgang Fritz's post just
> >a few minutes ago) subversion doesn't even support branches and tags 
> >doesn't sound like this would be an actual improvement...
> 
> moves maintaining the history and atomic commits are a serious 
> improvement from my point of view, and "branches" have been created in 
> the linuxtv.org CVS by copying more than once: remember the dvb-kernel, 
> the dvb-apps and the dvb-kernel-v4 module which were basically branches 
> of the DVB tree.
> 
> And personally I have to admit that I access the repository using slow 
> conections pretty often...

I heard rumors that svn is even slower than CVS. Maybe svn is faster
when someone creates a new branch, but that doesn't happen that often.

But it's easy enough for you to try out before messing with linuxtv CVS.

Johannes