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

[brett l. <wak...@gm...>]

OK.   The thoughts are generally favorable, so I'll start planning a migration.

My basic plan is going to be something like this:

1.  Test out the Git plugin for Eclipse. If the UI is similar enough
to the CVS integration, we'll go with Git.
2.  If Git doesn't work out for some reason, my second choice would be
Mercurial.  So, I'd look into that.
3.  If both options fail for some reason, I'll punt and go with
Subversion.  It at least sucks marginally less than CVS.  (you can
actually delete directories in SVN!)

---Brett.



On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 3:10 PM, 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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