Re: [PATCHES] CVS should die

Heikki Linnakangas wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Gaetano Mendola wrote:
>
>> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>
>>> I'm certainly open to considering subversion, although I have a
>>> certain traumatic experience with it that may or may not be related
>>> to the BDB backend that it uses.
>>>
>>> I think for a start it would be nice if pgfoundry could optionally
>>> offer subversion (and/or arch) for source control, so that some
>>> developer groups and also our system administrators could get some
>>> experience with it.
>>
>>
>> I good very start point is see if cvs2svn can handle the postgresql
>> CVS without
>> errors.
>
>
> I tried that yesterday out of curiosity. It had problems with 3 files
> which I removed manually:
>
> /pgsql/src/interfaces/perl5/Attic/ApachePg.pl,v
> /pgsql/src/interfaces/perl5/Attic/test.pl.newstyle,v
> /pgsql/src/interfaces/perl5/Attic/test.pl.oldstyle.pl,v
>
> Otherwise, no problems.
>
> Interestingly, the subversion repository is 585MB, and the CVS
> repository is only 260MB, so apparently Subversion is not very good at
> compressing the repository. Not that it matters, though.
>
Subversion, I believe uses SleepycatDb (eg Db4). Thus it isn't flat
files like CVS.

>
> I also agree with Andrew's observation that it's really up to the
> committers since they are the ones that have to work with whatever
> system we have.
>
> I like subversion very much, but one thing that troubles me a bit is
> the number of extra libraries required to compile and run it. Also, is
> there pre-compiled binaries for all the platforms that PostgreSQL
> supports?

Doubtful. Also there are known issues with Subversion on >FC1 if you are
running newer versions of it. You have to compile specially with
--without-posix-mutexes (I think that was the flag).

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

>
> - Heikki
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