On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
>
> I'm not terribly keen on its method of merging changes between branches,
> given that the user has to determine the SVN revision numbers and
> specify them properly, but it's not really a big burden (and could
> probably be scripted if it needed to happen often).
This is also one of my concerns since a lot of the development I do is
maindaining local variants of open source software, so the lack of
somthing to replace CVS vendor branches is a big problem. However this
shouldn't be a serious issue for Exim, since development will be mostly
linear.
> The docs also have some warnings about situations where SVN could
> accidentally reverse out a change during a merge, so the SVN users would
> need to take things slowly at first and learn what the "best practices"
> would be.
Also a good point. I've done a lot of learning at the feet of CVS masters,
and that's missing for SVN. However it ought to be a bit more forgiving.
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Tony Finch <dot@???>
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