Re: [Savannah-help-public] CVS versus SVN

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 01:23:21AM +0200, Yavor Doganov wrote:
> David Hill wrote:
> > 
> > I understand that projects can use Subversion (SVN) instead of CVS  
> 
> Projects can use whatever VCS supported by Savannah they wish (which
> currently means CVS, Subversion, GNU Arch, Git and Mercurial -- GNU
> Bzr is in testing phase and not yet officially supported).
> 
> > direct me to some savannah support information on the conversion and
> > relative merits.
> 
> There are several conversion tools available, and you should be able
> to "svn import" your project.  Right, Sylvain?   (Failing that, I
> guess that a Support request would do.)
> 
> > What is the official (savannah-hackers) view on the use of SVN?
> 
> TTBOMK the Savannah Hackers don't take a specific position wrt various
> VCSes as it is a sensitive subject.  Any VCS that is supported by GNU
> Savannah should be fully functional; the choice is yours.
> 
> > I noticed that the GNUStep repository seems to have moved to SVN.
> 
> That was years ago, and they moved to Gna! (a different site that also
> uses Savane), because at that time there was no Subversion support
> here.
> 
> Disclaimer: I am not a Savannah hacker, so please wait for a response
> from an authoritative person.

All good :)

I'll just add that there's help about this at:
https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/CvSToSvN

-- 
Sylvain