[linux-dvb] Re: wiki?

[Wolfgang Fritz <wolfgang.fritz@gmx.net>]

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> Holger Waechtler wrote:
> 
>>Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
>>
>>>Tomi Ollila wrote:
>>>
>>>...
>>>
>>>>Convert CVS repository to subversion
>>>
>>>
>>>Please don't!
>>
>>can you please elaborate your concerns a little more in detail?
>>
>>Holger
> 
> 
> 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...
> 

I'm sorry if you got this impression from my mail. In fact, the design
of a subversion repository supports branching and tagging much better
than CVS. But the user interface is worse in my opinion.

> But of course, it's up to you what version control system you want to
> use. I'm usually just the "never change a running system" type ;-)
> 

Me too :-)

But my company is a merge of 3 or 4 other company, each using a
different versioning tool. So we switch to subversion. Because nobody
used that before and all will have the same starting point: zero.

Wolfgang

> Klaus
> 
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