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Re: subversion vs cvs

Sailesh Krishnamurthy <sailesh@cs.berkeley.edu>

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From: Sailesh Krishnamurthy <sailesh@cs.berkeley.edu>
To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>
Cc: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2004-03-24T04:26:10Z
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>>>>> "Marc" == Marc G Fournier <scrappy@postgresql.org> writes:

    Marc> On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Sailesh Krishnamurthy wrote:
    >> Which brings me to another question .. has anybody considered
    >> using subversion instead of CVS ?

    Marc> Why?  not that I'm for a chance from something that isn't
    Marc> broken, but what advantages does subversion give us over
    Marc> what we already have?

I've had plenty of pain with cvs in terms of directories not being
first-class etc .. but I don't really contribute to pgsql so you guys
probably don't have the same experience. 

I was just curious as it looks like eventually subversion (or arch :-)
will be an alternative to cvs. 

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