FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: SCM

[Nik Derewianka <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I believe trying to do 'odd' things with a broken bottle and some lube 
would be more pleasant than attempting this experiment.

> Totally wacky idea, but it may be worth mentioning that there doesn't 
> seem to be any *technical* reason why one couldn't have the same batch 
> of files being managed in all 3 tools -- cvs, svn, and perforce.  It 
> does make things rather painful in terms of keeping the repository 
> up-to-date with all 3 tools, not to mention handling check-ins, etc. 
> However, if some intrepid individual were to configure things so that 
> the svn and p4 repositories kept themselves in sync with cvs more or 
> less automatically, perhaps a few of our more prolific contributors 
> could be convinced to run with this sort of set up for a while.  It 
> would allow them to get a real grip on how each of the tools felt to 
> work with on our code base without having to commit to a particular 
> tool.  I think we could trust those "more prolific contributors" ;) to 
> make a good decision based on their experience and just go with that.
>
> If/when we move from SF, it would be hard to argue against using 
> either of them -- svn or p4 -- simply because they're better options 
> than cvs.
>
> e
>
> Nik Derewianka wrote:
>
> > If someone is so inclined - i have svn+apache running on my server 
> > which i have created an empty haiku repository on.  If someone wants 
> > to populate the haiku repositry with a copy of the current tree and 
> > therefore allow other devs to try working with it rather than 
> > everyone conjecturing about which system is hypothetically better - 
> > then please get in touch with me and i will give you the account 
> > details for uploading etc.   I dont think its going to be a straight 
> > dump of files so i cannot offer to do the setup myself as i know 
> > nothing about the current haiku setup :P
> >
> > At this point in time i cannot offer full hosting services for it yet 
> > until we get our link upgraded (most likely in the next month or so).
> >
> > Regards,
> > Nik