Re: subversion vs cvs (Was: Re: linked list rewrite)

Magnus Naeslund(t) <mag@fbab.net>

From: "Magnus Naeslund(t)" <mag@fbab.net>
To: Dustin Sallings <dustin@spy.net>
Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>, neilc@samurai.com, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>, sailesh@cs.berkeley.edu, Frank Wiles <frank@wiles.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2004-03-25T17:22:45Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Dustin Sallings wrote:

 >
 >     You can use distributed revision control systems as centralized
 > systems, but not vice-versa.
 >

Not true, the other way around exists, that is what svk does.

 >     As far as understanding the simplicity of arch (if you wanted to
 > understand the problems it solves and implement it yourself), a really
 > good presentation was posted today to the arch list that sums it up
 > quickly and concisely.  It's hard to go through that and not think, ``I
 > could write this.''
 >
 >     http://web.verbum.org/tla/grokking-arch/grokking-arch.html
 >

Will read it, thanks.

Regards,
Magnus