Re: The essential problems of moving from CVS

[Thomas Adam <thomas.adam22%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 09:46:13AM +0900, Curt Sampson wrote:
> On 2010-01-15 08:50 +0000 (Fri), David Holland wrote:
> 
> > Any system that has rename, atomic commits, sane branches, and
> > fast tagging is going to appeal to a lot of people, more still if
> > it supports disconnected operation; my guess is that we'll end up
> > adopting the first one that comes along with no major downsides.
> 
> Well, that's SVN with SVK. I suppose the downside is the perceived
> instability of it. But this is, essentially, a decision, at the very
> least, not to seek some of the advantages a DVCS could give us. Which is
> fine, but I'd like to see that admitted explicitly, rather than implied.

Not only "perceived instability" but also lack of development:

http://lists.bestpractical.com/pipermail/svk-devel/2009-May/001224.html

-- Thomas Adam

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