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Re: CVS and its problems
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 01:40:22PM -0400, Phil Edwards wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 12:25:08AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> > I'd suggest not putting too much effort into fixing problems caused by
> > CVS in the short term; quick hacks are probably good enough. Why?
> > Because subversion (subversion.tigris.org) actually looks like it's on
> > schedule to come out with a stable version 1.0 before the end of 2002.
> > And there was already agreement that it would be good to switch over
> > once it was released.
>
> Yeah, I spent some time looking at this yesterday, prompted by the CVs
> discussions.
>
> The only two things that bother me are:
>
> 1) Subversion 1.0 will not have the equivalent of "cvs annotate"[*]
> due to schedule slippage (something all of us are all too familiar
> with), and
Doh...
> 2) It uses HTTP for its underlying transport, unless I've seriously
> misread their docs. Which means that people behind firewalls now face
> a whole new set of problems, since simple tunneling through SSH is out.
This shouldn't present a significant problem. We can arrange a
SSH->HTTP tunnel on the server side; that's five minutes of work.
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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
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