[cvsnt] cvs / subversion discussion

keith d. zimmerman lists at kdz13.net
Fri Aug 15 14:06:25 BST 2003


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SQL backend - as in all data is stored in an sql database as opposed to the
rcs file format?   this is good....  very good!!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Hoyle" <tmh at nodomain.org>
Newsgroups: support.cvsnt
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Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 8:57 AM
Subject: Re: [cvsnt] cvs / subversion discussion


> On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 08:07:23 -0400, "Scott Ford" <sford at RJKTECH.com>
wrote:
>
> >I would not be interested in a rivalry with subversion, but rather a
> >technical discussion about what subversion offers vs. what cvsnt offers
> >(now and in the future). I doubt that I will stop using cvsnt anytime
> >soon. It works and I am rather quite happy with it (hats off to you
> >Tony!). But I would like to know at least what it over the horizon, and
> >why I will (or won't ;)) like it.
> >
> At the moment subversion has binary deltas and directory versioning, and
cvsnt
> has all the watches/reserved edits that it inherited from CVS, Unicode
support
> and integration with NT authentication.
>
> In the future I'd imagine quite a lot of convergence, since what people
want
> of a version control system tends to be pretty similar.  For example the
next
> version of cvsnt will have a new SQL backend that'll automatically give it
the
> directory stuff, rename/move tracking, binary deltas, plus advantages from
> using SQL, like transactions.   On paper it'll also be considerably
faster,
> but I haven't got far enough with the rewrite to prove that yet.
>
> Tony
>
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