Re: Moving to subversion, gonna eat me a lot of peaches

[Ben Elliston <bje at au dot ibm dot com>]

Kean Johnston wrote:

> I think svn is a great tool, don't get me wrong. Very well
> written and got all the features one could want. But I
> don't know (or see) the actual problem you are trying to
> solve. cvs seems to be wroking really well for gcc.

I could have said the complete opposite.  For my GCC work, I can practically hear CVS 
creaking.  An hour and a half to tag a tree (blocking all other committers during 
that time) is becoming unacceptable.

> as stable and vital to teh community as gcc, changing something
> as fundamental as its SCM should come with a pretty big long
> set of justifictions (all coolness factors waived). There's

This has been discussed over at least two GCC Summits (and possibly longer).  I don't 
think this switch is being done on a whim.

Ben