On 21 Feb 2002, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm not interested in using P4. I think it's a mistake. That is, I > > think it is being severely overused. [...] > > Frankly, although I use Perforce myself for PAM work, I agree with Matt > here. Most of what is going on in the Perforce should be happening on > branches in our main repo, if only CVS didn't suck so bad at branching. > > I would like to suggest that we consider transitioning our main repo to > Subversion. It's reasonably similar to cvs, and has all the features we > need that cvs lack: metadata versioning, atomic commits, cheap > branching... The problem is CVS. The solution is unclear. In the mean time, people are using Perforce because it's an effective tool to do the job. Believe me, I'd rather *not* be using two (or two and a half) different version control and software source management schemes, but the practical reality is that CVS cannot provide what I need to do what I do. Once there's a reliable free version control system that can be the One True System, I'll be extremely pleased to use it. Until then, well... :-) Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project [EMAIL PROTECTED] NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
