Revision control systems [Was: I broke the build]
Adam Megacz
patches@lists.megacz.com
Sat Feb 9 15:54:00 GMT 2002
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?
- a
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