On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 01:23:21AM +0200, Yavor Doganov wrote: > David Hill wrote: > > > > I understand that projects can use Subversion (SVN) instead of CVS > > Projects can use whatever VCS supported by Savannah they wish (which > currently means CVS, Subversion, GNU Arch, Git and Mercurial -- GNU > Bzr is in testing phase and not yet officially supported). > > > direct me to some savannah support information on the conversion and > > relative merits. > > There are several conversion tools available, and you should be able > to "svn import" your project. Right, Sylvain? (Failing that, I > guess that a Support request would do.) > > > What is the official (savannah-hackers) view on the use of SVN? > > TTBOMK the Savannah Hackers don't take a specific position wrt various > VCSes as it is a sensitive subject. Any VCS that is supported by GNU > Savannah should be fully functional; the choice is yours. > > > I noticed that the GNUStep repository seems to have moved to SVN. > > That was years ago, and they moved to Gna! (a different site that also > uses Savane), because at that time there was no Subversion support > here. > > Disclaimer: I am not a Savannah hacker, so please wait for a response > from an authoritative person.
All good :) I'll just add that there's help about this at: https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/CvSToSvN -- Sylvain
