On 26 Nov 2005, at 11:43 PM, Gabor Hojtsy wrote:
but I really do think we need to give cvs the boot. SVN is far simpler to comprehend, and script.
Indeed, I really think CVS actually does harm in the confusion it causes for new users. SVN is a little bit more intuitive, and it's easier to fix mistakes (versioned directories, "svn move" and "svn rename").
But we are left with the same questions:
Will Dries ever approve the move to SVN? What would it take for that to happen? What do we need to do to make it happen?
This is quite easy to answer. Software support is not in place (drupal.org commit tracking, project module, etc) for SVN. First this needs to be done for a version management system, before a switch can be considered.
According to Dries, we need to first convert cvslog.module From how I understand the module, there's a set of scripts which manipulate the cvslog table, when triggered by cvs commits. We would (simply?) have to rewrite these commit scripts to populate the tables on svn commits. That's my 2 minute overview of the problem. -- Adrian Rossouw Drupal developer and Bryght Guy http://drupal.org | http://bryght.com