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[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 10:50 -0400, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> > git
> > cvs
> > hg
> > 
> > tla/monotone/etc doesn't seem to have the groundswell behind it
> > svn isn't overtly interesting to me beyond a couple of features as
> > compared to cvs
> 
> Right, that's what I would pick as well.
> 
> Basically, how do we enable people to work as part of the larger 
> community?  That's what distributed SCMs allow you to do, and it's why 
> we should be supporting them.  Because we're part of that larger 
> community.  That's the metric that I would use.  Does adding this bring 
> more people into the fold, and enable them to get things done?  Does it 
> let them connect to the larger community in a meaningful way?
> 
> A side note, not really relevant to the meta discussion is that svn is a 
> "cvs that doesn't suck" and I would rather support it over cvs.  But if 
> we're talking about moving to a better SCM we might as well leapfrog 
> right to something like git.

that may be true but svn requires a bunch of infrastructure that cvs
doesn't. Moreover cvs has the vast majority of our data.

Svn is better than cvs for some things, but it's not good enough to deal
with the pain of transition, imo.

-sv