Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:06:19 -0500

Benjamin Franksen wrote:

On Friday 30 May 2008 01:56, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:

However, should we take a serious look at Git?:

One disadvantage is that it is poorly supported on Windows

(usability and efficiency-wise). I am not sure how critical this point is.

Critical, and as an aside git is apparently rather hard to learn.

My current intentions are to convert the existing monolithic CVS

repository into a series of Subversion repositories, split up by

project. We finally have the infrastructure set up here at APS to

support SVN+Trac properly.

*Before* anyone starts on about SVN not being a "modern distributed

version control system", take a look at the Bazaar VCS and its bzr-svn

plugin from http://bazaar-vcs.org/ which can transparently use SVN

repositories and working copies while managing local branches.

The reason I haven't moved forward with SVN yet is because there are

quite a number of CVS working copies around the world which this

switch-over will affect; I don't want anyone to lose uncommitted changes

or cause significant rework, so this switch will need coordination

between the core developers and should probably happen just after a release.

I'm also slightly nervous that our CVS repository, whose oldest log

messages date back to February 1991, will successfully convert to SVN.

The examples that I've tried so far have worked out fine, but they

didn't have branches. I'm guessing that we'll be fine, but that's not

proven yet.

- Andrew
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System