Re: CVS for Cfengine (Was: Re: Bugzille for cfengine)

[Sven Mueller]

Eric Sorenson wrote on 15/12/2004 01:28:
> Over-dramatic? Maybe. But I broke 1200 production machines for several days
> last week (due to the 'cfagent -Q' splaytime behavior), and I really think it
> would not have happened if we had a systematic way of comparing code changes
> and commit logs between cfengine releases.

This is exactly where I find subversion of more use. With subversion, 
you get a complete commit log of everything below a directory if you do 
"svn log <directory>", while CVS doesn't support such recursive log 
views AFAICT. Also, "svn diff -r REV1:REV2 <directory>" works perfectly 
for me, giving a unified diff of all the changes between REV1 and REV2, 
both of which would be revision numbers consistent throughout the 
repository, which also means that you can be sure that the diff "svn 
diff -r $[$REV-1]:$REV <file1>" and "svn diff -r $[$REV-1]:$REV <file2>" 
are definately from the same commit, also a thing almost impossible to 
do with CVS.

So PLEASE: Wherever you create a repository for cfengine, please create 
a subversion repository rather than a CVS repository.

cu,
sven

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