[haiku-development] Re: New way to access subversion for developers
- From: "David McPaul" <dlmcpaul@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:48:46 +1000
2008/6/14 Salvatore Benedetto <emitrax@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 2008/6/14 Michael Lotz <mmlr@xxxxxxxx>:
>>>> svn: Unrecognized URL scheme
>>>> 'https://oruizdorantes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/svnroot/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk'
>>> > >
>>> I guess this means that the BeOS/Zeta port has to be updated to
>>> support the https scheme. It is currently not possible to commit any
>>> changes with the current svn client.
>>
>> I am sorry, but I find this unacceptable. I use BeOS as my only
>> operating system and have 4 machines with a total of 8 repositories
>> (counting buildtools) using the svn+ssh method plus a few with
>> anonymous svn. I have currently three commits ready but I am now just
>> unable to commit them? Doing such a switch without prior warnings so
>> that people needing updated binaries for their platform have at least a
>> chance of continuing working is IMO just very bad practice. I usually
>> liked the BerliOS hosting because it worked pretty well for me, but
>> moves like this are just unacceptable and I have to vote for moving
>> hosts ASAP. Especially for an institution hosting open source software
>> and helping alternative operating systems I cannot believe the
>> ignorance displayed by that. I sure hope that this is just another
>> temporary thing that has been exceptionally badly communicated.
>
> While we are on topic, I'd like to understand if everybody think that
> staying with a centralized version control system instead of a decentralized
> like git or mercurial is still a good idea?
It is annoying.
As for changing, even if we change we need support for BeOS and haiku.
Does git or mercurial support BeOS?
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Cheers
David
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