Re: [Rails-devel] Idea: migrating away from cvs.

[Phil D. <de...@gm...>]

I have better familiarity with SVN than anything else but frankly if
you point me in the direction of an appropriate guide that's decently
written I'll happily go with whatever anyone else wants

On 3 February 2010 23:10, Erik Vos <eri...@xs...> wrote:
> I have only a little experience with SVN, and none with Git, so I can't
> offer much help in this decision.
>
> Most important for me is ease of use from Eclipse and the quality of the
> integration with Eclipse.
> With SVN, I have found that I also needed TortoiseSVN to resolve some
> conflicts that I could't fix from Eclipse
> (these problems were probably caused by my own undisciplined use of SVN).
>
> Erik.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: brett lentz [mailto:wak...@gm...]
> Sent: Wednesday 03 February 2010 23:03
> To: Development list for Rails: an 18xx game
> Subject: [Rails-devel] Idea: migrating away from cvs.
>
> As we're all probably aware, CVS is ancient technology.   Rails is
> only really using it because it was the default for a Sourceforge
> project when I signed up.
>
> After nearly 5 years of development, our repository has gotten a bit
> crufty and is starting to show some of it's warts. Performance doing
> checkouts has started to suffer a bit.
>
> What do you guys think about looking at other options?
>
> For the last year at $dayjob, I've been using Git (http://git-scm.com)
> a lot, and I really enjoy it.  Looks like there's an Eclipse plugin
> for git (http://www.eclipse.org/egit/).
>
> Sourceforge supports using Subversion, Git, Mercurial, Bazaar, and CVS.
>
> I've personally got experience with CVS, Subversion, and Git. I've
> only used Mercurial once or twice, which isn't enough to really have
> an opinion of it.
>
> Overall, my experience is that Git is light years ahead of CVS and
> Subversion.
>
> What are everyone else's thoughts and experiences?
> Is this something worth doing?
> Do you want to stay with CVS?
> Do you hate me because you're a new committer and you just got your
> environment set up, and now I'm proposing changing it?  ;-)
>
> ---Brett.
>
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