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Re: Notes from the version control BOF at the summit
* Greg Hudson:
>> We should certainly revisit this topic in a year or so. The general
>> picture will be much more clear, and there'll probably a natural
>> choice by then.
>
> The world doesn't really move so fast. Subversion will have put out a
> 1.1 release with some additional features (definitely the FSFS back
> end and a better CVS conversion tool, probably exclusive locking,
> maybe a better ACL system, but probably not merge-tracking).
Then make it two years. 8->
> Presumably tla will have made modest improvements, but the patch queue
> manager, web interface, and CVS conversion facilities will remain
> immature.
But tla has the benefit of being an official GNU project, and
Subverion's GPL-incompatible licensing might be an issue (which is
something the SC could review today, IMHO). On the other hand, tla
developers tend to completely dismiss the centralized model.
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