[cvsnt] Re: CVS or Subversion?

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Tue Jun 29 12:20:38 BST 2004


On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 09:46:05 +0200, Marlon van den Berg
<marlon.vandenberg at molding.fico.nl> wrote:

>Help!
>Some of the people here in our office want us to change over to subversion
>and leave cvs(nt) behind. Is there anybody that can give us some good
>arguments to throw at those people why we shouldn't turn over to subversion?
>This is our set-up:

That's the wrong way to look at the problem.  You need to be asking
why change?  Remember changing all your clients and converting all
your repositories is going to take time (I'm not sure there's a way of
converting cvsnt repositories to subversion, only standard cvs ones,
so that may be an issue).

If Subversion gives you something that cvs/cvsnt can't give you, and
that's worth the change then go ahead with it.... plan it properly,
trial it first, etc. just like you would with any new software.  

If the reason for the move is just that Subversion is 'new' and 'cool'
then that isn't sufficient in any business and your boss should see
that without any particular effort on your part.

Tony




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