[ale] Subversion?

[Dow Hurst]

The OpenZaurus, OpenEmbedded, and Opie projects all use 
BitKeeper.
Dow


Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> I remember some time back that there was a big to-do about Linus
> switching from CVS to Bitkeeper.  I'm sure he had his reasons that were
> germane to kernel development, but on the whole one would have to call
> the move a ringing endorsement of Bitkeeper.
> 
> - Jeff
> 
> On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 18:16, David Corbin wrote:
> 
>>On Wednesday 14 January 2004 08:56, John Wells wrote:
>>
>>>Guys,
>>>
>>>I'm in a position to decide on a versioning control system for our
>>>company's dev team.  Naturally, my first thought was CVS, but I've seen a
>>>few blips for Subversion (subversion.tigris.org) and must say I like some
>>>of the features (http://svnbook.red-bean.com/html-chunk/ch01s03.html).
>>>
>>>I am, however, concerned by the relative newness of the project, and I
>>>really haven't heard of many folks using it in a production environment.
>>>I find that a sometimes helpful measure regarding the quality of a tool is
>>>the amount of buzz/activity surrounding a tool, and I honestly haven't
>>>seen a lot.  Of course, it could be I'm looking in the wrong places :).
>>
>>I've heard some buzz about Subversion of late (several sources).  Not enough 
>>to make me consider it, but perhaps in another year.  If I can't using 
>>Perforce for some reason, that is.

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