Re: Subversion at LuaForge

[Stefan Sandberg <keffo.sandberg@...>]

The point of all this is that SVN is more or less phasing CVS out, 
version 2, if you will..
Subversion has an excellent array of clients, tools and integrations for 
most popular IDE's, readily available tutorials and help, and is easy 
and uncomplicated to work with.
The idea of having to muck around with cygwin and try to "fake" a non 
windows environment just because the chosen version control is buggy is 
just stupid.

I'm all for an alternative, but it would have to prove itself to 
overshadow SVN enough that it also overweigh the benefits of using 
already available subversion offer, through the latest GForge release,
which also brings up the point of familiarity. A complete facelift of 
luaforge might sound attractive for practical reasons, or aesthetics, 
but it's probably not from the view of the casual users who use it on a 
daily basis.
They might not object to a one-time move from CVS to SVN, but a complete 
makeover of the whole concept will most likely make some people upset, 
especially if they're already happy.

Baby steps.. baby steps.


Doug Currie wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 21, 2007 Miles Bader wrote: 
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> > Doug Currie <doug.currie@gmail.com> writes:
> >     
> > > Not to mention the lack of Windows support for git:
> > > http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Git_on_Windows
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> > Git "native" support for windows is flaky, but it does exist (and is
> > actively being developed).
> >     
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> > However, AFAIK (I don't use windows myself) you can just use cygwin to
> > run git on windows and everything should work.
> >     
>
> Well, I prefer not to run flaky software, or cygwin, on my machine,
> and I suspect I am not alone.
>
>   
> > Of course, none of that should have any bearing on whether luaforge
> > supports git or not.  Ideally luaforge would just support every popular
> > SCS, and let the project maintainers decide what they want to use.
> >     
>
> Sure. However if the number of supported SCS at LuaForge is limited,
> my vote would be for Subversion and Mercurial. These are centralized
> and distributed models for a wider set of platforms.
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