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Re: Switching to Subversion
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Juanma Barranquero |
Subject: |
Re: Switching to Subversion |
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Mon, 13 Nov 2006 00:37:51 +0100 |
On 11/13/06, Miles Bader <address@hidden> wrote:
He provides pretty good arguments _against_ subversion
Based on false statements, like this one:
"The old Berkeley DB-based backend has been deprecated as unstable and
subject to corruption [..."
FSFS is the default, but the BDB backend was never "deprecated as
unstable". And, in the ChangeLog of the latest release, there's this
bit of information:
A common problem with previous versions of Subversion is that
crashed server processes could leave BerkeleyDB-based
repositories in an unusable "wedged" state, requiring
administrators to manually intervene and bring back online.
(Note: this is not due to bugs in BerkeleyDB, but due to the
unorthodox way in which Subversion uses it!)
Subversion 1.4 can now be compiled against BerkeleyDB 4.4,
which has a new "auto-recovery" feature. If a Subversion server
process crashes and leaves the repository in an inconsistent
state, the next process which attempts to access the repository
will notice the problem, grab exclusive control of the
repository, and automatically recover it. In theory (and in our
testing), this new feature makes BerkeleyDB-based repositories
just as wedge-proof as FSFS repositories.
And yes, Havoc, anyone seriously entertaining moving to SVN should have
their heads examined.
Ah, yes, a good technical argument.
/L/e/k/t/u
- Re: CVS commits and logs, (continued)
- Re: CVS commits and logs, Andreas Schwab, 2006/11/11
- Re: CVS commits and logs, Miles Bader, 2006/11/11
- Switching to Subversion (was: CVS commits and logs), Bill Wohler, 2006/11/11
- Re: Switching to Subversion, Romain Francoise, 2006/11/11
- Re: Switching to Subversion, Bill Wohler, 2006/11/11
- Re: Switching to Subversion, Romain Francoise, 2006/11/12
- Re: Switching to Subversion, Richard Stallman, 2006/11/12
- Re: Switching to Subversion, Juanma Barranquero, 2006/11/12
- Re: Switching to Subversion, Sascha Wilde, 2006/11/12
- Re: Switching to Subversion, Miles Bader, 2006/11/12
- Re: Switching to Subversion,
Juanma Barranquero <=
- Re: Switching to Subversion, Miles Bader, 2006/11/12
- Re: Switching to Subversion, Juanma Barranquero, 2006/11/12
- Re: Switching to Subversion, Miles Bader, 2006/11/12
- Re: Switching to Subversion, Juanma Barranquero, 2006/11/12
- Re: Switching to Subversion, Stefan Monnier, 2006/11/13
- Re: Switching to Subversion, Juanma Barranquero, 2006/11/13
- Re: Switching to Subversion, Juanma Barranquero, 2006/11/13
- Re: Switching to Subversion, Stefan Monnier, 2006/11/13
- Re: Switching to Subversion, Bill Wohler, 2006/11/13
- Re: Switching to Subversion, Stefan Monnier, 2006/11/14