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List:       doxygen-users
Subject:    Re: [Doxygen-users] subversion (was: Unofficial Accouncement of New CVS Repository)
From:       Marcus <mathpup () mylinuxisp ! com>
Date:       2005-09-16 5:11:13
Message-ID: 200509160011.13529.mathpup () mylinuxisp ! com
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Please don't. It upsets me to see so many projects leaving CVS for subversion. 
I find CVS so much easier to use. Subversion is particularly lacking in 
flexibility with regard to date specifications, such as "3 days ago" or 
"yesterday" or "1 week ago".


On Thursday 15 September 2005 4:40 pm, Axel Kollmorgen wrote:
> Dimitri van Heesch wrote:
>  > On 9/15/05, *Kevin McBride* <kevin@planetsaphire.com wrote:
>  >> I have set up a CVS repository for the latest bleeding edge of
>  >> doxygen.
>  >
>  > Beware that what is currently in Kevin's CVS doesn't compile (my
>  > mistake). I hope to correct this tonight.
>
> while changing repository, why don't you take the chance to convert to
> subversion [1]? you'd get (almost) all features of CVS, plus Directory
> versioning, True version history, Atomic commits, Versioned metadata,
> Choice of network layers, Consistent data handling, Efficient branching
> and tagging, Extensibility [2], and great 3rd-party tools [3] such as
> Trac [4]. many big open-source projects already did the switch [5].
>
> there are various proven ways to convert a CVS repository to subversion
> [6] (notably cvs2svn [7]), and there are various sites that offer free,
> reliable subversion hosting [8].



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