Re: [mantisbt-dev] Thoughts about migrating Mantis from CVS to Subversion

[Gianluca S. <gi...@gm...>]

On 10/29/07, Victor Boctor <vb...@gm...> wrote:
>
> I personally prefer Subversion compared to CVS any day.

In my experience, SVN has advantages in some areas (most notably, to
secure the server-client connection in a transparent way) but until
now it was not a compelling replacement where I work.
The biggest complain I have about it is the tagging/branching scheme
which I found at least confusing.

For now, at work we decided to keep CVS until we have a _really_
better option, possibly also with decentralized operations avaliable
(git look like good candidate).

> However, I
> would also like to know your opinions with regards to whether this
> will have any effect on contribution of patches, etc.
> Increase/decrease/no effect.

I don't think we can attract more developers (and patches) just by
changing the SCM tool. It will be probably the same rate we see today.

>
> When I migrated MantisConnect, I just re-added all the files to an SVN
> repository, so I haven't tried the migration process in Sourceforge.
> >From memory, this wasn't fully done by then.  So did anyone out there
> do such migration where the history is kept intact?

Yes, I think trying to maintain the history would be a worthwhile
effort. I am _constantly_ resorting to history to find out how bugs
sneaked into the code.