On Thursday 02 June 2005 09:43, Lenz Grimmer wrote:
If you come from CVS, learning SVN should not be too difficult. They try to be very close in terms of commands and concepts.
Right. We made that migration with the YaST2 repository a few months ago - quite a lot of software, and 5+ years worth of history. The migration went without a hitch, and even hackers who don't care to RTFM learned what they needed within a few hours. The SVN man page has a link to the one relevant book which also contains a really good migration guide.
In addition, I have tools that currently do a decent job of supporting CVS. For example Emacs, and Cervisia. The Cervisia Konqueror mode is especially nice. AFAIK, Cervisia doesn't support SVN, and I don't know if or how well Emacs will. KDevelop has been all over the place with version control support (I run the bleeding edge), so I have no idea what the current status of that is.
Does anybody know of a good SVN GUI client similar to Cervisia?
I don't know any, but I think that in due course somebody will either write
one or adapt Cervisia to handle both.
But it's questionable if this is really needed - SVN provides half-graphical
access to the repositories via your web browser. It doesn't do everything
Cervisia does, in particular not the nice history and branches graph with
clickable diffs between versions - that's the downside.
But for branches SVN has a completely different approach anyway, and I found
the web mode to be _much_ more useful for that than anything Cervisia ever
did.
I miss the nice and easy diff, though.
CU
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Stefan Hundhammer