On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 11:53:13 +0100, Thomas Hallgren wrote:
> Andrew McMillan wrote:
>> Switching to Arch is more work, but it also offers a lot more benefits -
>> including the opportunity for individuals to maintain their own trees,
>> and be able to work out which patchsets from someone else's tree have
>> not been applied. If anything is going to become the open-source
>> BitKeeper it will be this, I think.
>>
> For those interested in SVN versus arch, I found the following from Tom
> Lord (the guy behind Arch)
>
> http://web.mit.edu/ghudson/thoughts/diagnosing
>
> and a reply from Greg Hudson (SVN developer)
>
> http://web.mit.edu/ghudson/thoughts/undiagnosing.
>
There is a fairly detailed comparison in the GNU Arch wiki as well.
<URL: http://wiki.gnuarch.org/moin.cgi/SubVersionAndCvsComparison>
Note: if you're a postgres committer you may have more luck seeking out
your nearest SCM advocate -- almost all of them would regard Postgres
migrating to their preferred SCM as a 'win' -- let them work for you by
walking you through things.
Cheers,
Anand
