[OT] Re: [cvsnt] Re: cvsnt status

[John Peacock]

This is verging on off topic for this forum, so I am happy to take it elsewhere 
if people want.

Ori Berger wrote:

> I don't think SVN will gain much ground. It doesn't offer enough 
> practical advantages over CVS to be worth the transition effort. And the 
> amount of tools available for CVS is not easily reproducible.

You evidently have never tried Subversion and/or do not deal with large 
projects.  I have quickly moved my Perl core patch work into Subversion for one 
reason alone: tags are cheap copies and merging is almost effortless.  I can 
quickly create a branch, switch my working copy over, try out some changes, 
generate a patch file, then delete the branch.  This is painfully slow in CVS, 
with only {!} 4150 files to tag.  It is very fast in Subversion and I would 
never want to go back.

And as far as tools goes, by the time Subversion goes gold, there will be a 
multitude of tools available (most are already well along):

TortoiseSVN - just like TortoiseCVS
RapidSVN - cross-platform GUI
Subway - SCC plugin for Subversion
Ankhsvn - integrate Subversion into .NET IDE
ViewCVS - full support for Subversion in HEAD branch code
cvs2svn - convert existing CVS repositories to Subversion with intelligent 
branch support, etc.
VCP::Dest::svn - similar to cvs2svn but supports incremental conversion

It is also much easier in Subversion to do a lot of server-based management 
things (like pre/postcommit triggers).

John