RE: [cgiapp] Re: Status of upcoming release?

["Kinyon, Rob" <suppressed>]

I just installed SVN from source on Cygwin(WinXP) and it was a breeze.
I'm using it to manage PDF::Template and Excel::Template. I love it!

Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Hicks [mailto:suppressed 
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 12:45 PM
To: suppressed; Mark Stosberg
Subject: Re: [cgiapp] Re: Status of upcoming release?

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Mark Stosberg wrote:

> Subversion, along with Arch, appears to be the two most interesting 
> solutions I see people moving to from CVS. I understand that
Subversion 
> is: "like CVS, only better", while Arch has more fundamental 
> differences, which appeal to me. Now I'm using Arch to manage 6
(small) 
> projects and have been pleased.

It is like CVS, only better.  That's true.  But to me that's like saying

Linux is like UNIX, only better.  I have a whole different feel with svn

that makes getting things done much more comfortable than with cvs.
With 
cvs I never ever branched.  It just wasn't worth the trouble.  With svn 
its just a copy command.  (The branch doesn't actually copy anything
until 
there's a change.  It's a ghost until then.)

> Arch is very easy to install, and the most basic commands are the same

> as cvs: "update", "commit", etc. (I understand the same is true for 
> Subversion).

I haven't tried installing subversion from source, but FC2 has RPM's
that 
have been peachy for me.  Yes, subversion has all the favorite cvs 
commands including update, commit, status and log.  But the log command
is 
much more useful than the cvs log and the status command just gives you
a 
list of what you've changed in your working copy.  I used to always have

an alias that would grep through the output of cvs status to see what
had 
actually changed.  Plus when using cvs status I had to enter the ssh 
password.  svn stores enough information locally to status and revert 
without any network access whatsoever.  And it caches the password so I 
don't have to keep typing it over and over and over.

All of this has made my development life much better.  Now I just need
to 
get it to automatically put change messages in bugzilla.  Woo woo.

-- 
</chris>

There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make

it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way

is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
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