[En-Nut-Discussion] Change Ethernut repository to SVN

Harald Kipp harald.kipp at egnite.de
Thu Aug 28 18:06:49 CEST 2008


I have added the btnut list, because they'd be involved too.

Thiago A. Corrêa wrote:
> 
>     Since sourceforge supports SVN for quite sometime now, how about
> moving the CVS repository to SVN? There is a tool that carries the
> history from CVS to SVN, so we don't have to loose it.

AFAIK the CVS history doesn't differ much from the one provided by SVN.

The ChangeLog is a kind of NEWS file with more general infos. Users may 
get a rough overview here without going into the details of the file logs.


> And we could have commit diffs easily posted automatically on the list
> for review.

This is possible with CVS as well, it's simply not configured. However, 
I'd prefer to have a distinct list (en-nut-commit) for this. Most 
subscribers of nut-discussion won't be interested in such posts.

Anyway, it is planned to move to Subversion. As you may have noticed, I 
no longer use $Log$ in newer files, because SVN won't support it.

The reason for not moving to Subversion so far is, that there are tons 
of other items on my list. However, if someone wants to take over this 
task, I'll support this.

We may also discuss first, if we should stay with SourceForge. The 
problem is, that SourceForge doesn't allow to download the full 
repository including all control files.

Harald








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