Re: Revision control systems [Was: I broke the build]

[Adam Megacz <patches at lists dot megacz dot com>]

Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:
> My impression is that arch is pretty new.  I think it is written in sh
> and awk.  For those two reason I would avoid it.

> Bitkeeper isn't free software.  For me, that's enough to rule it out.
> For me this is more important than whether Linus uses it, or whether
> it is available for use with free software.

Agreed, that's why I'm not really happy with either one. Unfortunately
I can't find anything else to use.


> You could always try subversion.  It might not be reliable enough yet.
> This is the program I think will become the successor of cvs.

Eehh... having coded for berkeleydb before, I'm not comfortable
leaving my data locked up inside it. I can't figure out why they chose
it, when people who really need journalling/recovery/performance can
just use rieserfs...

Do you know if subversion has a flat-files mode?

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