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Re: Git and GCC
On 12/6/07, Andrey Belevantsev <abel@ispras.ru> wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > It's surprising that you don't mention svk, which is based on top
> > of Subversion[*]. Has anyone tried? Is there any problem with it?
> I must agree with Ismail's reply here. We have used svk for our
> internal development for about two years, for the reason of easy
> mirroring of gcc trunk and branching from it locally. I would not
> complain about its speed, but sometimes we had problems with merge from
> trunk, ending up with e.g. zero-sized files in our branch which were
> removed from trunk, or we even couldn't merge at all, and I had to
> resort to underlying subversion repository for merging. As a result,
> we're currently migrating to mercurial.
I would not recommend SVK either (even being an SVN committer). While
i love the SVK guys to death, it's just not the way to go if you want
a distributed system.
>
> Andrey
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