-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 First of all, thank you for your reaction.
On Sunday 21 March 2004 14:43, Nikolai Prokoschenko wrote: > On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 02:14:40PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > This move has been announced a couple of months ago. It has been clear, > that it will be done, it has been until now unknown, when this is to > happen. Now you know. > People are joining the project all the time. I joined about two weeks ago, so I missed the original announcement and for me the move comes completely out of the blue. > > - - I am running Woody, and subversion IS NOT available for Woody. (Oh > > sure, there is something at backports.org and I'll try and get it from > > there, but that is not really the Debian way.) > > Why not? It's just a debian package source, like any other. Any anyway: > this is all about the Sarge installer, and subversion is in Sarge. We are > currently in the transition phase.... > Mainly because of the risk of conflicts between backports. In this case, it does not look to bad (I used the backport by Colin Watson). > > - - I was just getting comfortable with cvs, and now I have to invest > > fairly valuable time in installing and learning a new tool. Where do I > > find the information for setting it up? > > Subversion has been AFAIK designed to be mostly compatible with cvs on the > commands basis. apt-get install subversion should be enough to start, the > necessary command to check out the repository has been mentioned a couple > of times and also mailed to the translator by Christian. Committing is > about as simple as in CVS - svn commit will do. Because I joined recently, I have not seen any of this. I think it would be a good idea to make some basic information available on http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ Everything there still refers to CVS... I would especially appreciate information on how to 'convert' my local working directory from cvs to svn. > > - - I was using Cervisia (from KDE) as a front-end for CVS - which made > > live a lot easier - and I am not sure Cervisia supports svn (I'm fairly > > certain it does not). > > Sid has a Subversion client called RapidSVN (it will certainly be > available from backports.org), I have also used a java tool called jsvn > (can be found from freshmeat), which is quite fine, I guess. BTW, you > won't notice much difference between CVS and SVN if you're using GUI tools > anyway ;) > No, RapidSVN unfortunately is not available... So, in the end, I still think this could have been communicated better. FJP -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAXaWqgm/Kwh6ICoQRAuVQAKCXYF3Y+tDIUY0TZ4mDOM6ZUfe3iwCgv4C0 P6edJcqB2zpXiNRf8nbC/rk= =QBQC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
