Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

[Chris Shoemaker]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 02:02:51PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Quoting Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker at cox.net>:
> 
> >>A very important feature for me is that the repository format stills 
> >>allows
> >>me to extract the latest version of things if it gets corrupted.  I'm
> >>not sure SVN meets that criterion, but CVS does.  That was the main
> >>motivation for us moving from SCCS to RCS before CVS came out.
> >
> >before CVS came out?!  You've .. um... been around a while, eh?  :)
> 
> How young ARE you?  Even /I/ remember the time before CVS.

:) Too young to have been worrying about version control software in
1986.  (or was it earlier?)

> -derek
> 
> PS: I don't need to google.  I very well understand different SCMs and I 
> very
> much understand the differences between something like SVN and something 
> like
> Bitkeeper.  I still think your arguments are irrelevant for the gnucash
> project, and all you're doing is wasting time, bandwidth, and meritocracy
> points.

That's a bit dismissive don't you think?  :( You probably don't mean
to sound like an arrogant elitist, but it does sort of come across
that way.  It kind of makes me want to respond like others have [1],
but I want to remain constructive.

-chris

[1] http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2001-July/004343.html


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